Founding Product Engineer - Listen Labs
Posted 2025-04-06Listen Labs
Everyone hates surveys. TheyÂre tedious to fill out and give shallow data. ThatÂs because theyÂre only a proxy for the real thing: conversations. Through a conversation, you can ask follow-up questions and get deep insights in a way thatÂs fun for the interviewee. Except you canÂt have 1:1 conversations with everyoneÂ
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. WeÂre fine-tuning and prompting in novel ways to get the right output from LLMs.
Multi-modality
WeÂve built the fastest speech-to-speech pipeline but thereÂs a number of challenges we need to address to make it better. Our interviewer has audio input and output to the LLM and thatÂs tricky to get right.
Investors
ThereÂs 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 itÂs typically to discuss tradeoffs.
 You donÂt scoff at unglamorous engineering tasks, yaks donÂt 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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