Empathic

Empathic

Founding Engineer

San Francisco, USA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 218 days ago
TypeScriptPythonGoRustDistributed Systems

About the role

  • Empathic is creating a great friend for everyone on Earth, by digitizing connection, in what we think could be the biggest cultural transition of our lifetime.
  • Most AI "conversation" today is a robotic, sterile, turn-based interface.
  • Users will connect not on a new destination, but the iMessage, Facetime, and other native apps they already love.

Responsibilities

  • Shape the next generation of human-AI interaction with our founder, design, and other engineers.
  • Build new systems for memory, retrieval, proactivity, responsiveness, and more Work on and integrate the latest internal and external real-time video generation and audio synthesis models Build user facing interfaces and features Create the bar for engineering quality and help recruit world-class talent.
  • We're building towards a realistic real-time video call medium where AI can be present and proactive, to connect with users.
  • We intend to build a engineering-first organization of the highest quality, fully in-person in San Francisco.

Requirements

  • Proficiency in one or more backend languages (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, Typescript or similar) and distributed systems concepts, work with databases, etc.
  • You are excited about working at the earliest stage!

Nice to have

  • Frontend proficiency and design taste is a massive plus.

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