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Engineering

Full-time

AI Engineer

New York, New York

hybrid

Hinge is the dating app designed to be deleted

In today's digital world, finding genuine relationships is tougher than ever. At Hinge, we’re on a mission to inspire intimate connection to create a less lonely world. We’re obsessed with understanding our users’ behaviors to help them find love, and our success is defined by one simple metric– setting up great dates. With tens of millions of users across the globe, we’ve become the most trusted way to find a relationship, for all.

About the Role



We are seeking an AI Engineer to join our engineering team and support multiple simultaneous initiatives, including our AI-powered workflows, agent-driven interactions, and trust & safety features. You will design, build, and maintain robust and scalable AI systems, while collaborating closely with backend engineers, researchers, product managers, and designers to deliver exceptional user experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, optimize, and maintain AI agent workflows, ensuring high-quality interactions, scalability, and adherence to user safety standards.
  • Implement and refine prompt engineering strategies, optimizing the conversational performance and accuracy of our generative AI models.
  • Integrate AI workflows with backend services and infrastructure, ensuring seamless deployment, performance, and observability.
  • Support backend engineering tasks, primarily in Golang, to develop API endpoints for our iOS team as they interact with our AI Agents.
  • Participate in designing and implementing scalable cloud solutions on AWS and GCP using Terraform and Kubernetes.
  • Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues in AI systems, promoting robust monitoring and continuous improvement.

What We're Looking For

  • Startup mindset: Comfortable with ambiguity, iterative development, and wearing multiple hats when needed.
  • Experience with Voice AI Agents using WebRTC/Websockets with tools like LiveKit, Pipecat, or Daily.
  • 3+ years of professional experience in AI-focused engineering roles, including prompt engineering and backend system integration.
  • Strong experience with OpenAI's API and generative AI systems, particularly optimizing performance for conversational agents.
  • Experience with LangFuse or similar LLM observability platform
  • Experience with creating quality data sets and fine-tuning LLMs using tools like TensorZero, Argilla, etc.
  • Proficiency in backend development with Golang and Python.
  • Solid knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
  • Experience with PostgreSQL databases and designing performant, scalable database schemas.

Salary Range

$204,000.00 - $262,000.00 per year salary

Factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, job-related skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and business considerations may influence base pay offered. This salary range is reflective of a position based in New York City. This salary will be subject to a geographic adjustment (according to a specific city and state), if an authorization is granted to work outside of the location listed in this posting.

Diversity inspires innovation.

Hinge is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We believe success is created by a diverse workforce of individuals with different ideas, strengths, interests, and cultural backgrounds.

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We're having open and honest conversations about things that are going well and not going well, like celebrating a hard-earned win or sharing our struggles.

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Senior Data Scientist

Perks & Benefits

Do your best work, live your best life

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Hiring Process

We pride ourselves on our people. Here’s how we find the best.

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A call to get to know each other.

Transparency, candor and humility allow us to focus on delivering outstanding results without getting distracted by ego, gossip or politics.

The skills interview.

Breakthroughs require our willingness to take risks. We strive toward audacious goals, expecting and persevering through setbacks and failures along the way.

The narrative interview.

We remember we’re all human beings first. We keep in mind who we’re serving. We listen humbly and openly. We speak and act with kindness and care. We practice radical inclusion.

The culture interview.

We remember we’re all human beings first. We keep in mind who we’re serving. We listen humbly and openly. We speak and act with kindness and care. We practice radical inclusion.

Making an offer.

We remember we’re all human beings first. We keep in mind who we’re serving. We listen humbly and openly. We speak and act with kindness and care. We practice radical inclusion.

Full-Time & Hybrid Employees

What you’ll love about our New York office.

We believe in the power of in-person connection. For full-time and hybrid employees, Hinge HQ is a place to collaborate and get to know each other.

Catered Lunches

Commuter Benefits

All-Gender Restrooms

Nursing & Wellness Rooms

Get outside and play bocce ball on the terrace in your down time.

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Do you think we’d click?

If you’re passionate about inspiring intimate connections, join us.

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