Multiple Engineering Roles

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-t