OpenAI Engineer at Known

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Job Title: OpenAI Engineer

Company Description: Known - Seed-stage AI startup backed by Forerunner Ventures and NFX

Job Description:
As an OpenAI Engineer at Known, you will leverage frontier AI experience to build an intimate conversational matchmaking platform. You will develop real-time voice AI and personality modeling that replaces swiping with deep understanding. Joining a small, high-caliber team in San Francisco, you will directly influence a product where 80% of matches lead to real-world connections.

Location: San Francisco, USA

Why this role is remarkable:

- Work on a deeply technical challenge involving real-time voice AI and one of the most intimate conversational datasets in consumer technology.

- Join a high-caliber team of Stanford dropouts and ex-Uber/Apple talent backed by $9.7M from top-tier VCs like Forerunner Ventures, NFX, and Pear.

- High-autonomy, in-person culture in Cow Hollow where you avoid ticket queues and have direct product impact while benchmarking against Apple-grade craft.

What you will do:

- Design and implement sophisticated matchmaking algorithms that utilize multi-modal understanding and personality modeling to facilitate meaningful human connections.

- Build and optimize real-time voice AI systems that power the platform's core 27-minute conversational experience to ensure seamless user interaction.

- Collaborate directly with founders and advisors like Chester Chipperfield to shape the product roadmap and technical architecture from the ground up.

The ideal candidate:

- Must have direct professional experience working at OpenAI, bringing frontier knowledge of large-scale model behavior and...