OpenAI Engineer at Known

About this role

Known, a seed-stage AI startup, is seeking an OpenAI Engineer to build a conversational matchmaking platform using real-time voice AI and personality modeling. You'll work with a high-caliber team in San Francisco to replace traditional swiping with deep understanding-based connections.

What you'll do

• Design and implement matchmaking algorithms using multi-modal understanding and personality modeling
• Build and optimize real-time voice AI systems for the platform's core conversational experience
• Collaborate with founders and advisors to shape product roadmap and technical architecture
• Develop solutions for intimate conversational datasets in consumer technology

What they're looking for

• OpenAI experience (required)
• Real-time voice AI development
• Machine learning and AI model implementation
• Matchmaking/recommendation algorithms
• Full-stack product engineering
• Personality modeling and multi-modal AI
• Startup environment experience

Benefits

• Work on deeply technical AI challenges with frontier technology
• High autonomy and direct product impact
• In-person culture in San Francisco with minimal bureaucracy
• Backed by top-tier VCs ($9.7M funding)
• Apple-grade product craft standards
• Work with Stanford dropouts and ex-Uber/Apple talent