founding engineer – ai voice agents
💰 $160,000 – $210,000 + equity | founding stage comp
📍 nyc onsite only
i’m hiring on behalf of a sharp, well-funded startup building voice-first ai agents that help frontline businesses (warehouses, food production, cleaning, etc.) hire faster and more fairly – no forms, no resumes, just natural conversations.
their flagship product is already live: a multilingual voice and text agent that handles the entire hiring pipeline – creating resumes, running interviews, and scheduling finals – all without human intervention.
the team includes early builders from traba, tesla, meta, and roblox. backed by the same investors behind ramp, cognition, and apptronik.
the role
they’re looking for a founding engineer to help build and scale real-time agentic workflows -especially around voice, language, and automation. you’d be engineer #3 on a 6-person team, with a huge scope of ownership and direct access to customers.
you might be a fit if:
- you’ve built or shipped voice-powered products (e.g. calls, real-time audio, STT/TTS, multilingual agents, conversational flows)
- you’ve worked with llms to create intelligent assistants, copilots, or tools
- you’re a hands-on product engineer who ships fast and cares about user experience
- you’ve worked in a startup or zero-to-one environment before
you’ll work on:
- real-time, voice-first agent workflows
- multi-lingual conversations and scheduling automation
- tools for recruiters and hiring ops to manage agent-led pipelines
benefits + environment:
- top of market cash + equity for top talent
- 100% covered health, dental, and vision
- daily lunch + dinner covered in-office ($50/day)
- gym + 401(k)
- fast-paced, collaborative environment (onsite in nyc, no remote)
interview process:
- intro call
- technical interview with both engineers
- coding task
- final dinner with the founders (vibe check)
if you’re looking for something new and are a voice specialist apply today with your updated resume.