Founding Principal Engineer Posting

About the Company

We envision a world where communication flows freely, and language barriers no longer exist. Imagine improved quality of care for low-English proficiency patients at the hospital or ordering the best ramen in the world from a small town in Japan while conversing with the owner and sharing stories. Employees can finally be evaluated on their skills rather than their language abilities, allowing them to access more job opportunities and be their full selves around their coworkers.

We’re building software at the forefront of text and speech translation and bringing it to surfaces where communication happens today and 20 years from now. Communication via language is at the heart of what makes us human.

Our founder has launched semantic search and NLP features at one of the largest tech companies in the world and also launched zero-to-one products at enterprise SaaS startups. As part of AI2, our team has access to the brightest AI talent in the world and an unparalleled network of advisors who have been building AI-first solutions for the past decades. Join us in increasing human connectedness by allowing people to communicate with anyone, anywhere.

Co Founder Job Description

The Role

As a principal engineer, you will design, build, and maintain the core infrastructure that supports the entire suite of communication tools within our company. As part of AI2, you’ll be surrounded by world-class engineers and researchers as we work together to break down language barriers and scale our vision.

What You’ll Do

• Design and architect major product features, leveraging the latest in AI research to build the best communication tools available
• Lead product initiatives to deliver magical user experiences in service of our customers
• Anticipate and prevent bottlenecks by proactively rearchitecting our system
• Develop engineering processes that encourage the entire team to ship quality code and hold the codebase to a high standard
• Work with leadership and customers to understand pain points in cross-lingual communication and develop solutions to solve them

Who You Are

• You’ve either…
• worked on challenging engineering problems, preferably from zero-to-one. You’ve built and evolved production systems to meet production SLAs at scale, and love to tinker on projects in your free time.
• worked across the AI/ML development lifecycle, from data ingestion to model deployment and production
• You’re comfortable with a modern AI infrastructure stack including data pipelines, ML frameworks, ML cloud infrastructure, and model deployment.
• You’re willing to flex up and down the stack in order to take projects across the finish line
• You thrive in environments with high levels of complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity
• You prioritize co-finding and executing on the best ideas, even if they’re not your own. You’re not ideological about technology; rather, you match your decisions about which technology to use based on the situation at hand.
• Bonus: You’re a language nerd and either speak multiple languages, are learning a new language, or love talking about languages!

Additionally

• We strongly believe in co-location of the founding team. Our current team is based in NYC.
• We uphold a writing-based culture, with the goal of minimizing meetings through documenting decisions, writing memos, and sharing knowledge broadly within the company.

Not sure if you meet all of the qualifications? We don’t expect every candidate to have done everything listed above, and we're excited to work with candidates who are eager to grow and develop their skills.