Full-Time

Founding Software Engineer

Dialogue AI

Dialogue AI

11-50 employees

Automates qualitative UX interviews with AI

No salary listed

Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
Machine Learning
Product Design

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Requirements
  • Ability to work across the entire stack, including frontend, backend, and artificial intelligence.
  • Ability to use modern artificial intelligence tools such as Claude Code and Cursor and adapt quickly.
  • Ability to take on significant responsibility independently.
  • A strong customer focus with a product and design mindset.
  • Clear and effective communication skills.
Responsibilities
  • Work across product, infrastructure, and artificial intelligence to deliver the customer-focused product.
  • Shape the product and company culture while working directly with the founding team.
  • Take on significant product ownership and help define the team's culture from day one.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with artificial intelligence and machine learning development.

Dialogue AI provides an automated UX research platform that runs one-on-one interviews for qualitative user research. Clients input research goals and documents; the platform creates a target audience and interview framework, then either recruits participants from their own pool or from a vetted network, and an AI interviewer conducts live, adaptive conversations while collecting data such as audio/video, transcripts, and biometric signals to derive insights. It differentiates itself by automating the entire interview workflow—from setup to recruitment to execution—using an AI interviewer and biometric data analysis to minimize manual coordination and enable scalable UX research. Its goal is to help teams gain fast, data-rich user insights at scale through automated interviews and data collection.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$6M

Headquarters

Santa Monica, California

Founded

2025

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • The 2025-10 seed round raised $6 million from Lightspeed for hiring and product acceleration.
  • Prolific's 200,000 vetted participants improve study speed and data quality for enterprise customers.
  • Demand for faster customer research keeps rising as teams replace manual interviews with AI tooling.

What critics are saying

  • UserTesting, Dscout, and Maze can copy interview automation and outspend Dialogue on distribution.
  • Collecting voiceprints and facial geometry invites BIPA and consumer-privacy claims within 2026.
  • If Prolific or a foundation model partner changes terms, Dialogue loses core data supply.

What makes Dialogue AI unique

  • Dialogue combines AI-moderated interviews, recruitment, and analysis inside one workflow.
  • Its Prolific partnership, announced 2025-12-10, gives direct access to verified participants.
  • Nicole Zeng joined as Head of Research on 2026-08-11, deepening product credibility.

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Headcount

6 month growth

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1 year growth

-22%

2 year growth

-22%
Dialogue AI
Aug 11th, 2026
Introducing our new Head of Research.

Introducing its new Head of Research. Nicole Zeng has joined Dialogue as its Head of Research, bringing a background leading research teams at Kalshi, Robinhood, Slack, Airbnb and Twitter. Dialogue Team Beyond excited to announce that Nicole has joined Dialogue as its Head of Research! Nicole is one of the most AI-fluent researchers working today, with a background leading research teams at Kalshi, Robinhood, Slack, Airbnb and Twitter. Dialogue AI Inc. first met her as a customer at Kalshi, where she used Dialogue in some of the most inventive ways Dialogue AI Inc.'d seen, running dozens of studies a week and pushing its product, and its team, to get better. Now she's on the other side, helping build out its Research practice. But the real reason Dialogue AI Inc. is thrilled to work with Nicole day in and day out isn't the resume. It's Nicole the person, not just Nicole the super rigorous, AI native researcher. She's creative, charismatic, insanely curious, and completely herself, the kind of person who will drop a Professor Chaos reference in the middle of a rigorous research study (Dialogue AI Inc. share the same pop culture brain). You can catch a glimpse of that in the video below. Some behind the scenes color for you: Dialogue AI Inc. filmed this in NYC during the World Cup, in a tiny studio, 90+ degrees, no AC because it was too loud for the mic. Every few minutes Dialogue AI Inc.'d have to stop, either for cars honking or crowds cheering as a goal went in somewhere nearby. Dialogue AI Inc. were stressing. Nicole wasn't. She just kept talking, passionate and unbothered, dropping wisdom about the future of research and why she joined Dialogue like the room wasn't slowly turning into a sauna. That's Nicole for you. Ex-founder herself (from an a16z company, no less), so she knows exactly what it takes to build something real, no matter what the obstacles. Welcome, Nicole.

Dialogue AI
Dec 10th, 2025
Dialogue x Prolific: Expanding Access to Verified Research Participants

Dialogue x Prolific: expanding access to verified research participants. Today, Dialogue AI Inc. is excited to announce that Dialogue AI is partnering with Prolific - an industry leader known for its high-quality, verified, and highly engaged research participants. Through this partnership, Dialogue is now a Premier Marketplace Partner on the Prolific platform, giving its customers even greater access to reliable, trusted participants for their research. Bringing Prolific's trusted participant network into Dialogue. With this integration, teams using Dialogue's auto-recruit capabilities can tap directly into Prolific's global participant network from within its platform. This allows researchers to reach real people faster and collect meaningful insights with greater confidence. Managing the entire process in Dialogue also creates a far smoother, more seamless research workflow from start to finish. Why Prolific? At Dialogue, Dialogue AI Inc. believe better decisions come from better data. Prolific shares that belief - and has built one of the most trusted participant communities in the world. Prolific recruits and manages its own participants rather than relying on aggregators, resulting in stronger verification, higher engagement, and more consistent data quality. A few highlights that stood out to Dialogue AI Inc.: * 200,000+ vetted participants across 40+ countries * 99.5% average participant approval rating * Median 2-hour full dataset completion time * Median 3-minute time to first response * 700+ studies launched every day Prolific's commitment to quality and transparency aligns closely with its own goals for Dialogue. Prolific is incredibly proud to partner with Dialogue AI. This collaboration combines its trusted network of verified participants with Dialogue AI's advanced interviewing technology, enabling researchers to capture richer, more nuanced insights while maintaining the ethical standards and data quality Prolific is known for. - Russ Tarr, Head of Partnerships, Prolific What this means for its customers. By combining Dialogue's AI-powered research platform with Prolific's participant network, organizations now have a faster and more dependable way to run research. Teams can: * Collect higher-quality data from verified, engaged participants * Execute studies more quickly using its self-serve auto-recruit features * Reach diverse global audiences with confidence Its aim is to reduce the time and effort between asking important questions and getting trustworthy answers. This partnership helps Dialogue AI Inc. deliver on that promise. Looking ahead. This collaboration strengthens its shared commitment to research that is fast, trustworthy, and reflective of real people. In a landscape where data quality varies widely, Dialogue AI Inc. believe that partnering with organizations that value rigor and transparency is more important than ever. Dialogue AI Inc. is excited to bring this capability to its customers - and can't wait to see what you build with it.

Business Insider Japan
Oct 23rd, 2025
Dialogue AI raises $6M for market analysis

AI startups are transforming the consulting industry by automating tasks like market research and data analysis. Companies such as Parable, Profound, and Dialogue AI have recently secured funding, with Dialogue AI raising $6 million. These startups target mid-sized companies, offering AI solutions that enhance efficiency. Despite the competition, the goal is to broaden access to consulting services, not replace human jobs. The sector is rapidly growing, with significant interest from investors.

Dialogue AI
Oct 17th, 2025
Dialogue Secures $6M to Enhance Research

Dialogue has raised a $6M seed round to democratize customer research. Founded by former employees of Apple, Snapchat, Twitter, and Reddit, Dialogue aims to simplify the process of engaging with customers. The platform allows anyone, from expert researchers to individual creators, to conduct customer studies efficiently. It uses a proprietary network to source participants, employs an AI moderator for interviews, and provides real-time insights.

Dialogue AI
Sep 18th, 2025
Suno Case Study: Accelerating Feature Validation with AI-Moderated Research

Suno case study: accelerating feature validation with ai-moderated research. Dialogue AI gave its designers the power to run studies directly, speeding up feedback and freeing up research bandwidth. About the customer. Suno is an AI music company that makes it possible for anyone to create original songs instantly. Its platform generates complete tracks - including lyrics, vocals, and instrumentation - from simple text prompts, giving both casual users and professionals an accessible way to produce music without traditional skills or equipment. The challenge. Suno was preparing to launch a new feature, Hooks - - short, catchy music moments designed for discovery and remixing. The team needed to validate both the concept and multiple design variations. Traditional research methods were too slow: running live usability studies for each iteration would have taken weeks of scheduling, note-taking, and synthesis, delaying a high-priority feature launch. The solution. Suno partnered with Dialogue to help solve some of these problems. Dialogue's platform conducted AI-moderated interviews with participants, walking them through the Hooks intro screen and multiple designs. Each participant was asked to interpret the UI, explain expectations, and compare versions. Dialogue AI automatically structured insights, highlighting comprehension issues, preferences, and usability gaps. Using Dialogue, Suno's team gathered detailed qualitative feedback on multiple feature designs in under 48 hours, without tying up their research staff. The results. * Research bandwidth saved: Suno's design team was able to run research independently using Dialogue's best practices, allowing their research team to focus on other strategic priorities * Time saved: Reduced a multi-week manual research process into 2 days of turnaround * Business impact: Provided clarity on which Hooks design their users preferred - directly influencing launch decisions Customer quote. It's been game changer for Dialogue AI Inc. on design, product, and research at Suno. Dialogue AI Inc. has been able to get way more qualitative feedback and help accelerate decisions being made on the product. It's freed up lots of people's time. For example, research would actually sit through multiple 30m studies taking up most of their day. This is for one single study on a specific feature which feels slow. Dialogue has unlocked multiple studies around different features designers are working on. It feels like its team grew and a big weight off its shoulders. Dialogue AI Inc. is loving the product! Yamill, a Staff Designer at Suno using Dialogue from their Venice beach office