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    Pear VC

    Venture Capital

    Founding Product Engineer - Listen Labs

    Austin, TX, United StatesRemoteFull-time$150k – $200k / yearPosted 1mo ago
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    Job description

    Listen Labs

    Everyone hates surveys. They’re tedious to fill out and give shallow data. That’s because they’re only a proxy for the real thing: conversations. Through a conversation, you can ask follow-up questions and get deep insights in a way that’s fun for the interviewee. Except you can’t have 1:1 conversations with everyone…

    Listen Labs has built an AI interviewer that can ask follow-up questions, like a conversation, but at the scale and ease of use of a survey.

    Technical Challenges

    Turn qualitative data into quantitative insights

    Listen Labs clusters free-form conversation into a structured format. This is not a trivial task. We use embeddings, fine-tuned large language models, and more to solve these problems.

    Ask the right questions

    Having a great conversation is not trivial. We’re fine-tuning and prompting in novel ways to get the right output from LLMs.

    Multi-modality

    We’ve built the fastest speech-to-speech pipeline but there’s a number of challenges we need to address to make it better. Our interviewer has audio input and output to the LLM and that’s tricky to get right.

    Investors

    There’s been $30B+ of market cap created from bringing surveys online. Our partner at Sequoia, [Bryan Schreier](https://www.sequoiacap.com/people/bryan-schreier/), was the first investor in Qualtrics – the $12B survey company.

    About you

    • You love working on products end-to-end without detailed direction

    • You want to work in Next.js, TypeScript, and large language models

    • You are a collaborative builder and like to build systems with other engineers in mind.

    • You are an excellent written and verbal communicator.

    • You know when to seek assistance, and it's typically to discuss tradeoffs.

    • You don't scoff at unglamorous engineering tasks, yaks don't shave themselves.

    • Highly technical

    • Interested in building products end-to-end and owning the user experience

    • Excited about large language models

    What we offer

    • $150,000 - $200,000 USD in cash.

    • High equity grant even for an early stage startup.

    • Work in person in our office @ 425 2nd St in San Francisco.

    Job details are sourced from the employer's original posting.

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    About the company

    Pear VC

    Pear VC is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in ambitious founders at the inception of their companies. They focus on seed and pre-seed rounds, aiming to partner with companies that have the potential to become category leaders. Pear VC is known for its hands-on approach, providing not just capital but also strategic guidance and operational support to its portfolio companies. They have a strong network and actively help their startups with talent acquisition, customer introductions, and future fundraising.

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    Venture Capital
    Founded
    2017
    Open roles
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