Founding Engineer
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Empathic Labs is building a real-time AI-enabled platform to digitize human connection. This founding engineer role is a unique 1-of-1 position alongside a Thiel Fellow founder, directly shaping the product and engineering culture as the company moves quickly. You’ll help establish the technical foundation for a bold consumer product focused on meaningful, scalable interactions. Responsibilities Build across the full application — work on all aspects with the founder, design, and other engineers. Create memory, retrieval, proactivity, and related systems to improve AI presence and responsiveness. Integrate real-time video and audio models, both internal and external, to enable dynamic interactions. Set the engineering bar and help recruit world-class talent. Dogfood the product extensively to ensure quality and real user value. Qualifications High energy, extremely intelligent and bright. Proven entrepreneurial spirit in startups or other fast-moving environments. Strong CS fundamentals. Done technically complex side projects. 1+ years of experience in software engineering. Bonus: experience with real-time media, vision/video models, memory systems, or audio-focused projects. #J-18808-Ljbffr
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