Founding Engineering Lead

AIFund

New York permanent

Posted: January 23, 2026

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Job Description

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
Co-design product vision in close partnership with Meeno’s team:
• 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)
Build core AI product primitives:
• Voice capture/playbackLow-latency interactions
• Scene framework (content + branching + scoring hooks)
• Feedback loops and user progression
• Personalization
Architect for speed + iteration (weekly experiments, not quarterly releases).
Set the engineering bar:
• Quality, reliability, security/privacy, and shipping culture.
Hire and mentor engineers as we scale:
• Focus on quality over quantity, leveraging AI and talent to scale while staying lean.

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.

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