iOS Engineering Intern, Pendulum
€25-35k
A new kind of language learning company
Open for applications
A new kind of language learning company
1-20 employees
Open for applications
€25-35k
1-20 employees
Company mission
Our mission is to open access to the world's culture through democratising language learning
Role
Who you are
- Experience with iOS engineering, whether through past internships, coursework, or self-published mobile apps
- Excited about building iOS applications to bring to life entirely new kinds of interfaces imagined for the AI era
- You are eager to learn and are comfortable figuring out how to build things you haven't built before
- Curiosity, ambition, kindness, and firm opinions loosely held
- You are excited about the potential of AI to redefine human-computer interactions and unlock the future of language learning
Desirable
- Experience applications or prototypes that leverage generative AI
- Strong design sensibilities
- You've heard of computing pioneers like Douglas Engelbart, Susan Kare, Alan Kay and Ted Nelson, among others, and understand why we’d be big fans of their work
What the job involves
- As an iOS engineering intern at Pendulum, you will work with our small but mighty team to develop intuitive mobile interfaces using Swift that leverage the power of conversational and visual AI for language learning
- Work with our Founding Designer and the broader team to shape how the product works, looks, and feels. You will collaborate on shaping and implementing new paradigms of human computer interaction in the areas of conversational AI, personalised cultural exploration and beyond.
- Ensure the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our systems across the mobile engineering stack. You will write clean, maintainable, and efficient code that can scale with the growth of our user base
Application process
- 30 minute intro call with one of the founders
- Take-home Mobile Engineering exercise OR live 1 hour project walkthrough (with code)
- 1 hour call with the entire team
- Work with us for a day (fully paid)
- Offer 💫
Our take
Pendulum is an immersive language learning company, developing AI products that redefine the very basics of learning a new language. Pendulum develops its products off the philosophy that to truly learn a language, one must experience the culture, differentiating it from the gamified learning of Duolingo and the traditional focus of education on grammar and sentence memorising.
Its products leverage conversational voice AI and autonomous LLM agents to create evolving digital landscapes that are fluid to the customer's fluency level. Essentially, customers are immersed in open-ended scenarios that are actively shaped by their conversations, thus replicating the experience of speaking to someone in a foreign language
Founded by a small team emerging from the South Park Commons Founder Fellowship, Pendulum has garnered support from notable investors, including Shine Capital and Mercuri, and early backers from platforms like Notion, Vimeo, and Patreon. These endorsements reflect confidence in Pendulum's approach to learning new languages. The team behind Pendulum brings extensive experience in AI product development, having previously built solutions at Spotify, led product and strategy initiatives at Google, and conducted research on generative media and natural language processes at Oxford and Imperial College. With this extensive background, Pendulum is ready to transform the way we learn new languages.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2024
$3.8m
Seed
Total funding: $3.8m
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
William Usdin
(Co-Founder)Previously worked at Google through several roles, most recently as Head of Strategy and Operations, EMEA. Also founded Woven Science and acted as their Chief Operating Officer.
Zo Ahmed
(Co-Founder)Ex-Spotify, most recently as their youngest ML Engineering Lead. Built out Spotify's podcast recommendation engine from scratch. Previously researched deep learning at Oxford University.
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