AI Product Engineer, Speak
2-3 days a week in office
English language learning app
Open for applications
English language learning app
101-200 employees
Open for applications
2-3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To teach the next billion people English and become the de facto way people learn languages.
Role
Who you are
- 3-5+ years of experience in full stack/backend, product-focused software engineering
- Proficiency in React/Node/Typescript and Python
- Strong product intuition — the ability to think broadly and cross-functionally about innovative LLM-powered capabilities and product experiences
- Ability to work independently and build at a high velocity
- Interest in building with LLMs
- You may have participated in LLM hackathons, developed several side projects, experimented with different types of models, and use ChatGPT daily
Desirable
- You have real-world experience developing and deploying LLM apps and a strong understanding, gained through experience, of what works and what doesn't
- A keen intuition for improving performance and output quality of LLM systems
- Experience with LLM Ops and tools (e.g., vector databases, RAG, prompt ops)
What the job involves
- As an AI Product Engineer at Speak, you'll play a pivotal role in developing the future of language learning and creating the most effective path to language fluency
- Your primary responsibility will be developing innovative product experiences powered by Language Learning Models (LLMs) and deploying them to millions of users
- Your tasks will span the full stack and beyond, from evaluating models and testing prompts to developing and iterating on various product features such as our conversational onboarding and lesson experiences, grammatical assessment and feedback, and personalized lessons
- We're constantly pushing the boundaries of what LLMs can do to provide an exceptional and unparalleled language learning experience to users in over 30 countries worldwide
- Developing and deploying LLM-powered language learning products across the full stack, as well as enhancing the quality and performance of existing AI-powered features within Speak
- Collaborating cross-functionally with other Engineering teams, Applied ML, Product, Design, and Content
- Refining our process for building LLM apps, including best practices for prompting, experimentation/evaluation, LLM Ops, measuring quality and performance, etc
- Scaling existing product features to many more users and languages
Our take
As the international language of business, there are many incentives for global entrepreneurs to learn English. With over 1.5 billion people actively learning the language to better their chances in the job market, the customer base for Speak, an AI tutor in the English language is potentially massive.
Investors believe so too, with tens of millions of dollars raised to fund the company from a range of international firms including Korean investors and the Silicon Valley-based OpenAI Fund. This surge of capital will help Speak develop its software and open new markets, especially in the US.
Speak is attempting to break into a human-saturated education market and the success of learning English fluently through its platform is yet to be proven. That being said, it has the potential to become a leading tool specifically in the mobile app sector if it can prove itself as efficient and accessible as the language learning platform DuoLingo.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2024
$20m
SERIES B
Jul 2023
$16m
SERIES B
Total funding: $100.4m
Company benefits
- Speak offers all the standard benefits you'd expect at a tech startup, along with stipends for commuting, fitness, and learning!
- In addition, team members are encouraged to travel between offices and we also host an annual company offsite
Company HQ
Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Connor Zwick
(CEO)Previously Advisor at Chegg Inc, CEO at coco Controller, Flascards+ and Freelance Blogger at Envato.
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