Founding Product Engineer - Listen Labs
Posted 2025-05-18Listen Labs
Everyone hates surveys. Theyre tedious to fill out and give shallow data. Thats because theyre only a proxy for the real thing: conversations. Through a conversation, you can ask follow-up questions and get deep insights in a way thats fun for the interviewee. Except you cant have 1:1 conversations with everyone
Listen Labs has built an AI interviewer that can ask follow-up questions, like a conversation, but at the scale and ease of use of a survey.
Technical Challenges
Turn qualitative data into quantitative insights
Listen Labs clusters free-form conversation into a structured format. This is not a trivial task. We use embeddings, fine-tuned large language models, and more to solve these problems.
Ask the right questions
Having a great conversation is not trivial. Were fine-tuning and prompting in novel ways to get the right output from LLMs.
Multi-modality
Weve built the fastest speech-to-speech pipeline but theres a number of challenges we need to address to make it better. Our interviewer has audio input and output to the LLM and thats tricky to get right.
Investors
Theres been $30B+ of market cap created from bringing surveys online. Our partner at Sequoia, Bryan Schreier, was the first investor in Qualtrics the $12B survey company.
About you
You love working on products end-to-end without detailed direction
You want to work in Next.js, TypeScript, and large language models
You are a collaborative builder and like to build systems with other engineers in mind.
You are an excellent written and verbal communicator.
You know when to seek assistance, and its typically to discuss tradeoffs.
You dont scoff at unglamorous engineering tasks, yaks dont shave themselves.
Highly technical
Interested in building products end-to-end and owning the user experience
Excited about large language models
What we offer
$150,000 - $200,000 USD in cash.
High equity grant even for an early stage startup.
Work in person in our office @ 425 2nd St in San Francisco.
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