About the Role
We’re looking for founding machine learning engineers to continue to design and build Known’s core systems intelligence, driving our recommendation engine and agentic systems. This is a unique opportunity to work with an ultra-personal data-set, combining voice transcripts, images, and structured user data to create both personalized AI companions as well as predict human compatibility. You’ll work directly with Chen Peng, former head of ML at Uber Eats and Faire.
What you’ll do
It’s up to you to decide what part of the ML stack you’re most excited about working on.
This could be:
You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of your models, from ideation and training to deployment and monitoring.
Requirements
Helping real people find real human connections. We're using AI to set you up with someone right. Take a call with us: tell us who you are and what you're looking for. Then, we'll handle the rest—from setting you up to planning your date.Real dates. Proven chemistry. No swiping.
Salary
$200,000 - $375,000
Location
San Francisco, CA
Total raised
$9.7M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.