What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Engineer position at Hamming AI?
About Hamming
We are a fast-growing automated voice testing company backed by YCombinator. We 8Xed our revenue in the last month. We are winning and are hiring a founding engineer to help us win faster.
Here's What You'll Do
Sumanyu (CEO) previously helped Citizen (safety app backed by Founders Fund, Sequoia, 8VC) grow its users by 4X and grew an AI-powered sales program to 100s of millions in revenue/year at Tesla.
Marius (CTO) previously ran data infrastructure @ Anduril and was a founding engineer @ Spell (MLOps startup acquired by Reddit).
We are a fast-growing automated voice testing company backed by YCombinator. We 8Xed our revenue in the last month. We are winning and are hiring a founding engineer to help us win faster.
Here's What You'll Do
- 0 to 1
- Build new products extremely quickly that make our customer’s voice agents more reliable. Our customers want new features, and we don’t have enough time to satisfy current demand.
- 1 to N
- Scale current products and infra to support 100x growth. This includes optimizing and productizing processes that humans currently do.
- Are a power user of Cursor, Zed, etc., and started using code-gen tools before they went mainstream.
- Have deep intuition about what the current gen LLMs are capable of and what kind of tasks that are hard now will become easier in the next model.
- Are fast at 0 to 1, but also thoughtful about how your technical decisions will scale over time.
- Want to grind with us, staying close to customers to iterate fast and solve their problems.
- Think independently and do whatever it takes to get things done while maintaining a very high bar for quality.
- Are excited about making AI voice agents reliable.
- Have shipped production LLM apps that people use.
- Have built 0-1 real-time systems at scale in Telecom/Networking, Autonomous Vehicles or high-frequency trading.
- Have hands-on expertise with distributed systems and a knack for orchestration, monitoring, and analytics.
- Have prior experience founding a company or building products at early stages.
- Fluent in model-based evals, observability, and prompt optimization work like DSPy.
- Have built AI voice apps.
- Essentials: Next.JS, TypeScript, Python, Tailwind
- AI: OpenAI, Anthropic, STT, TTS, etc.
- Infrastructure: PostgreSQL, k8
- Create voice simulations that model the real world (background noise, accents, etc.)
- Generalize DSPy style prompt optimization to voice
- Support 10K parallel calls with 99.99% reliability
Sumanyu (CEO) previously helped Citizen (safety app backed by Founders Fund, Sequoia, 8VC) grow its users by 4X and grew an AI-powered sales program to 100s of millions in revenue/year at Tesla.
Marius (CTO) previously ran data infrastructure @ Anduril and was a founding engineer @ Spell (MLOps startup acquired by Reddit).
Salary : $120,000 - $200,000