Co-Founder/CTO 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 the Cofounder/CTO, you believe in the power of AI to enhance human connection, especially in helping people communicate with anyone in the world through removing language barriers. You will be responsible for the technical vision and execution as well as building a team of world-class engineers and research scientists to scale our vision.

What You’ll Do

• Own the architecture, design, development, and productionization of the entire tech stack, from video conference extensions and web applications to NLP models
• Recognize and act on opportunities to integrate the latest AI research and related technologies to better serve our customers
• Build and lead our engineering and research organizations
• Work with customers to understand pain points in cross-lingual communication and develop state-of-the-art machine learning solutions to solve them
• Contribute to novel research on translation/interpretation in NLP and represent our work in the broader research community

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. Bonus: You’ve developed and shipped machine translation / interpretation systems in industry and/or hold a PhD in AI/ML
• You’re comfortable with a modern AI infrastructure stack including data pipelines, ML frameworks, ML cloud infrastructure, and model deployment.
• You crave ownership and get restless when not being challenged.
• You enjoy coaching and mentoring other engineers and researchers, but are also excited to roll up your sleeves and write code.
• 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.