Nuance Labs is building the first "human foundation model" — a unified system that understands and expresses human emotion in real-time across speech, facial expression, and body language. We are crossing the "uncanny valley" to create AI interactions that feel truly alive.
We recently raised a $10M seed round (Accel, South Park Commons, Lightspeed) and our founding team comes from MIT, UW, and Oxford, with deep experience shipping AI products at Apple and Meta. We are a small, fast-moving team that values in-person collaboration in our Seattle HQ.
We are looking for:
Machine Learning Infra Engineer: Own our GPU-backed serving stack, Kubernetes clusters, and media serving layer.
Systems Engineer (Real-Time Engine): Build our core server-side runtime. High-concurrency, low-latency systems. Python/Asyncio today, transitioning to Rust.
Why join?
Massive ownership in a high-bar, research-heavy environment.
Work on the frontier of multimodal generative AI and real-time graphics.
Competitive equity and the chance to shape a company from the ground up.
Apply: Check out the roles at https://www.nuancelabs.ai/careers and mention "hackernews" for how you heard about us.