Artificial Intelligence Engineer

We’re a fast-growing startup working on a next-generation conversational platform that blends natural voice, real-time interaction, and emotional intelligence. The product is already live in private beta — we’re looking for an AI Engineer who can refine, optimize, and scale our current model integrations.

Responsibilities

• Build, fine-tune, and deploy

  LLM-based conversational agents

  using OpenAI, Gemini, or similar APIs
• Optimize

  real-time audio pipelines

  , including transcription (STT) and speech synthesis (TTS)
• Develop and test

  prompt-engineering logic

  and dynamic response generation
• Collaborate with backend engineers to improve

  latency, accuracy, and contextual memory

• Implement

  custom tools and APIs

  for real-time reasoning and emotion detection
• Monitor and analyze model performance, create feedback loops for continuous improvement

Requirements

• Proven experience integrating

  OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or similar LLMs

• Strong coding skills in

  Python / Node.js

• Understanding of

  NLP, embeddings, prompt design, and text generation pipelines

• Hands-on experience with

  real-time systems

  (WebSocket, LiveKit, Twilio, etc.)
• Ability to debug and optimize

  model response times and context flow

• Solid foundation in

  API integration, cloud deployment, and model testing

Nice to Have

• Experience with

  emotion recognition

  ,

  voice-to-voice interfaces

  , or

  persona-based AI

• Familiarity with

  LangChain

  ,

  RAG

  , or

  vector databases

• Experience in

  fine-tuning smaller open-source models

  (LLaMA, Mistral, etc.)
• Previous work on

  AI companions

  ,

  counseling bots

  , or

  real-time agents

What We Offer

• Competitive pay (monthly or milestone-based)
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge

  real-time AI products

• Fast, creative environment — direct impact on user experience
• Long-term potential for growth with a core founding team

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