Location
New York, United States
Salary
(Yearly)
(Yearly)
(Yearly)
(Yearly)
(Hourly)
Undisclosed
$180,000 – $220,000
Category
AI Engineer
Date posted
January 24, 2026
Job type
Full-time
Experience level
Summary this job with AI
About Meeno
Backed by Sequoia Capital, AI Fund & NEA, and founded by the former CEO of Tinder, Meeno helps people build real-world social courage through voice-based practice: 1-minute scenes, instant scoring, and personalized feedback.
Not a dating app. Not a companion. Not therapy. IRL reps to help Gen Z meet people IRL.
What You'll Do
- Own the technical foundation of Meeno end-to-end: Web + mobile + backend + data + experimentation
- Renate Nyborg, founder/CEO (former Tinder CEO, ex Apple/Headspace)
- Josh Knox, product lead (founder of Outright, brand and content expert)
- Andrew Ng, Chairman (AI Fund, founder of Coursera/Google Brain)
- Voice capture/playbackLow-latency interactions
- Scene framework (content + branching + scoring hooks)
- Feedback loops and user progression
- Personalization
- Quality, reliability, security/privacy, and shipping culture.
- Focus on quality over quantity, leveraging AI and talent to scale while staying lean.
Co-design product vision in close partnership with Meeno’s team:
Build core AI product primitives:
Architect for speed + iteration (weekly experiments, not quarterly releases).
Set the engineering bar:
Hire and mentor engineers as we scale:
What We're Looking For
- Strong builder who has shipped consumer products.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and moving fast without breaking the soul of the product.
- Product taste: you care about “feel,” not just functionality.
- Excited by voice, interaction design, and behavior change.
- Can operate like a founder: make tradeoffs, set direction, ship.
Green flags (not requirements)
- Hyped about social connection, empathy for Gen Z loneliness.
- Early adopter of AI-driven development.
- Hungry for rapid career progression and societal impact.
- Experience with audio/voice pipelines, realtime systems, mobile performance.
- History of building unconventional projects (creative tech, experiments, indie builds).
- Interest in human behavior, social dynamics, and product psychology.
You won't pass the vibe check if...
- You are not passionate about our mission.
- You only want to manage, not build.
- You need perfect specs to move.
- You optimize for process over product feel.
- You are not fun.
What success looks like (first 6 months)
- Meeno has a stable foundation, and we can run rapid experiments.
- Our product feels fast, human, and culturally sharp.
- We have a pipeline of world-class engineering talent.
- We are well-positioned to raise Series A with clear signal on north star metrics.
- We are having fun.
180,000 - 220,000 a year


