AI Product Engineer
About the role
Your primary responsibility will be developing innovative product experiences powered by Language Learning Models (LLMs) and deploying them to millions of users. Your tasks will span the full stack and beyond, from evaluating models and testing prompts to developing and iterating on various product features such as our conversational onboarding and lesson experiences, grammatical assessment and feedback, and personalized lessons.
Responsibilities
- Developing and deploying LLM-powered language learning products across the full stack, as well as enhancing the quality and performance of existing AI-powered features within Speak
- Collaborating cross-functionally with other Engineering teams, Applied ML, Product, Design, and Content
- Refining our process for building LLM apps, including best practices for prompting, experimentation/evaluation, LLM Ops, measuring quality and performance, etc.
- Scales existing product features to many more users and languages
Requirements
- 3-5+ years of experience in full stack/backend, product-focused software engineering
- Proficiency in React/Node/Typescript and Python
- You have real-world experience developing and deploying LLM apps and a strong understanding, gained through experience, of what works and what doesn't
- A keen intuition for improving performance and output quality of LLM systems
- Experience with LLM Ops and tools (e.g., vector databases, RAG, prompt ops)
- Strong product intuition — the ability to think broadly and cross-functionally about innovative LLM-powered capabilities and product experiences
- The ability to work independently and build at a high velocity
Qualifications
- Office San Francisco, CA
Skills
- Full stack development
- Product-focused software engineering
- React/Node/Typescript
- Python
- Experience with LLMs and LLM Ops
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Benefits
- Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, and Tokyo, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
- Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Pay
- TBD
Schedule
- TBD
Company Information
Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
You’d join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company. You’d join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we’re growing very quickly, we’ve most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we’ve achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You’d join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.