Heard

Provides voice updates for coding agents

Founding Engineer

AI Application EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-time

About the Job

Requirements

You've built with large language models or agents in production, not just demos.
You have an artificial intelligence/machine learning background, or equivalent depth from independent experience.
You've scaled something real and have strong product judgment.
You want to own outcomes, not tickets.

Responsibilities

Design and build agentic systems that observe, decide what matters, and act.
Bring artificial intelligence and machine learning depth to large language models, speech, real-time models, and evaluations.
Architect for scale, from a few hundred power users to millions of agents talking to their humans.
Shape the product and help grow the company, not just the codebase.

Desired Qualifications

Try Heard and send your top three pieces of product feedback with your application.

Founding Engineer

Heard · United States (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-05

Salary: USD 100,000–140,000

Workplace: remote

Description

Heard (heard.dev) gives AI agents a voice, so people can work alongside them the way they work with a great teammate. We're growing fast, and we're hiring our very first engineer.

The role: Founding Engineer

- Design and build agentic systems: agents that observe, decide what matters, and act

- Bring real AI/ML depth: LLMs, speech, real-time models, evals, the stuff that makes agents actually good

- Architect for scale, from a few hundred power users to millions of agents talking to their humans

- Shape the product and help grow the company, not just the codebase

SF / NYC / Toronto / remote (US and Canada). $100k-140k + 0.5-2% equity.

Requirements

You might be a fit if:

- You've built with LLMs or agents in production, not just demos

- You have an AI/ML background, or you've gone deep enough that it doesn't matter

- You've scaled something real, and have great taste with product

- You want to own outcomes, not tickets

Bonus tip: try Heard (heard.dev/download) and send your top 3 pieces of product feedback with your application to [email protected]. Our founder reads every one, and it's the fastest way to stand out.

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About the Company

Heard

Provides voice updates for coding agents

Heard is building a voice interface for agentic AI systems, beginning with coding agents. Its Mac app reads aloud the progress of command-line coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex, turning updates about progress, blockers, and decisions into spoken updates, and lets developers reply by voice to the correct session. Updates can also be followed on an iPhone, with options for quick summaries or fuller detail. The idea is to keep coding agents moving without developers watching the screen, using systems that inform people and request human judgment when needed. The daemon is open source, and paid plans are recurring subscriptions with a 14-day free trial of the Power plan. Heard Labs, Inc. is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Company size: Not listed
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Founded: 2026

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