Artificial Intelligence Engineer, Hinge
$177.5-213k
Dating app for meaningful relationships
Be an early applicant
Dating app for meaningful relationships
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$177.5-213k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help singles build meaningful relationships by connecting in person, helping people to get off dating apps.
Role
Who you are
- Startup mindset: Comfortable with ambiguity, iterative development, and wearing multiple hats when needed
- Experience with Voice AI Agents using WebRTC/Websockets with tools like LiveKit, Pipecat, or Daily
- 3+ years of professional experience in AI-focused engineering roles, including prompt engineering and backend system integration
- Strong experience with OpenAI's API and generative AI systems, particularly optimizing performance for conversational agents
- Experience with LangFuse or similar LLM observability platform
- Experience with creating quality data sets and fine-tuning LLMs using tools like TensorZero, Argilla, etc
- Proficiency in backend development with Golang and Python
- Solid knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Experience with PostgreSQL databases and designing performant, scalable database schemas
What the job involves
- We are seeking an AI Engineer to join our engineering team and support multiple simultaneous initiatives, including our AI-powered workflows, agent-driven interactions, and trust & safety features
- You will design, build, and maintain robust and scalable AI systems, while collaborating closely with backend engineers, researchers, product managers, and designers to deliver exceptional user experiences
- Develop, optimize, and maintain AI agent workflows, ensuring high-quality interactions, scalability, and adherence to user safety standards
- Implement and refine prompt engineering strategies, optimizing the conversational performance and accuracy of our generative AI models
- Integrate AI workflows with backend services and infrastructure, ensuring seamless deployment, performance, and observability
- Support backend engineering tasks, primarily in Golang, to develop API endpoints for our iOS team as they interact with our AI Agents
- Participate in designing and implementing scalable cloud solutions on AWS and GCP using Terraform and Kubernetes
- Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues in AI systems, promoting robust monitoring and continuous improvement
Our take
Hinge is a dating app that sets itself apart from its competitors by focusing on relationships over hookups. It predominantly caters to people looking for long-term commitments. It has abandoned the “swipe” approach that’s often associated with game-like dating apps, such as Tinder, and instead it focuses on in-depth profiles and compatibility recommendations to help users better connect with each other.
In 2019, 50% of single people in the US had never used a dating app. Now, online dating has become part of the new normal, and Hinge’s focus on long-term, meaningful relationships is well-positioned to tap into the current desire for companionship and stability, as well as the growing market trend toward online dating.
The "dating app designed to be deleted" is the fastest-growing dating app on the market and is seeing further success following new capability expansions and acquisition by dating app portfolio Match Group in 2019. All this being said, there is growing concern over fake accounts and fraudulent activity on Hinge, as there is with other competing dating apps. Pricing tiers and more robust regulations for profiles are currently combatting this.
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Insights
48% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2014
$12m
SERIES A
Jul 2014
$4.5m
CONVERTIBLE
Total funding: $20.6m
Company benefits
- Equal opportunity employer
- 401k plan
- Accrual time off model
- Stocked kitchen
- Monthly date stipend
- Pet friendly
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
West Village, New York, NY
Leadership
Justin McLeod
(CEO)Having studied at Colgate University and Harvard Business School, Justin founded Hinge in February 2011. He has served as CEO since.
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