Who We Are
At Symbiose, we build tools for evolution to enhance and amplify our humanity.
We believe that conversation is the primary driver of personal growth and societal evolution. Through conversation, we form and deepen social connections, learn from other's experiences, and update our version of reality.
Yet despite the criticality of communications in our increasingly digital world, the tools we use today are obtuse and remnants of a bygone era. At Symbiose, we have a set of hypotheses for how digital communication should be.
Our company's objective is to increase the quality and quantity of conversation in the universe.
To do this we are currently:
- Releasing an imaginative new messaging and audio chat app, called Fractal (currently in stealth) that brings nuance and serendipity to your conversations.
- Scaling Inwords - our mental wellness app. With Inwords, we've built the world's first AI talk therapist, in an empathic intelligence named Remy. Tens of thousands of members have had hundreds of thousands of long-form verbal conversations with Remy about their feelings and thoughts. Our members report that they feel less anxious, have grown in self-awareness, and are happier as a direct result of their use of Inwords.
- Building a next-gen communications engine and development platform called SymbioseCore. SymbioseCore introduces new abstractions for messaging, live audio, and designable conversational AI agents. While the SymbioseCore platform is currently used exclusively by our products, Fractal and Inwords, we plan to allow external developers and companies to build on our platform to create imaginative new product experiences for their audiences.
While our team is currently remote with members distributed across the globe, we are planning on becoming co-located and building our HQ in Miami. Our exceptional investors include South Park Commons, Resolute Ventures, Slow Ventures, Kevin Hartz, Jon Oringer, and many more trailblazers in Silicon Valley.
Join Us If
- You want to work on exciting technology and deeply impact millions of people's lives and have a lasting impact on humanity.
- You're excited to build the future by expanding the frontier of social technology, human-computer interaction, and applied artificial intelligence.
- You want to work on your Magnum Opus, with a wildly ambitious, world-class team.
About the Role
We're looking for a stellar Technical Product Designer to join our team in building imaginative software interfaces.
We're pushing the boundaries of human-computer interaction by crafting novel communications interfaces. Our product surface area encompasses iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, Web, and "Invisible" platforms so we're looking for a multi-faceted experience designer to join our growing design team.
You'll be joining a dynamic team and have wide-ranging latitude to shape our product and design direction.
In this role you will:
- Work closely with our founder, Ryan, to bring product concepts to reality through end-to-end experience design, implementation, and iteration.
- Design comprehensive user experiences across iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, Web, and new experimental software platforms.
- Create sophisticated user journey maps and lo-fi wireframes for technically complex product experiences.
- Design pixel-perfect and adaptable interfaces with fluid micro-interactions.
- Conduct usability studies and user research interviews to identify challenges and opportunities across our products.
- Explore and introduce new features and enhancements to our products.
- Tightly document visually and in words how an experience should look, feel, and function.
- Be a steward of principled design through evolving our design systems.
- Collaborate with engineering to get your designs in the hands of users.
Who You Are
- Experience: You have 4+ years of design experience at a product-driven tech company. Bonus points for any prior software engineering experience.
- Expertise: You're an expert in UX design and familiar with design principles across iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, and Web platforms.
- Generative and Prolific: You thoroughly explore the solution space of what is possible by designing in multiple divergent directions, at the same time. You're comfortable with throwing away explored ideas and hunting for new ones continuously.
- Imaginative: You're creative and enjoy imagining new modalities of human-computer interaction.
- Analytical: You use data to diagnose product challenges and creative design to solve them.
- Technical: You're stellar at documenting visually, and with words how you expect a given design to behave.
- Finisher: You get your work over the finish line by closely working with engineering to implement, roll out, and then observe the usage of new product development.
- Autonomous: You understand objectives, take ownership, and aggressively resolve ambiguity to solve big challenges.
- Empathetic: You deeply understand people and want to build products that resonate with our humanity.
- Adaptable: You thrive in rapidly evolving environments and enjoy facing uncertainty head-on.
- Agile: You take initiative to move swiftly and decisively.
- Excellent Communicator: You collaborate effectively with a diverse team through excellent verbal and detail-oriented written communication skills.
Benefits
At Symbiose you can expect competitive market salaries and generous equity compensation. We consciously invest in the future and personal success of our teammates, and offer these benefits:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. We also offer flexible spending accounts (FSA)
- Unlimited vacation days!
- The workstation setup of your dreams.
- Catered lunch in the office and frequent team excursions.
- Unlimited affection from our resident french bulldog, Lily
Symbiose Technologies embraces diversity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, citizenship, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
About the Role
We are creating intelligence as a layer above a wide array of ML components including speech synthesis, transcription, NLP, NLU, and generative models.
We are looking for an engineer with a deep understanding of machine learning techniques with specific experience in language and dialog systems.
You will push the frontier of state-of-the-art methods and deploy them in a production environment.
What You'll Do
Collaboratively advance the capabilities, behavior, performance of our novel conversational platform.
Lead, define, and implement state-of-the-art machine learning methods across our technology stack, especially in Natural Language Generation.
Architect, build, and take ownership of a data-driven system informed by users’ conversational behavior.
What We're Looking For
You're a fast learner who can assimilate bleeding-edge research and bridge it to business and product objectives.
5+ years of technical experience
B.A./B.S. degree, bonus for M.S. or PhD
Expert in Python, familiarity with modern cloud computing infrastructure (GCP, AWS)
You are empathetic and want to build technology that helps people direct their personal evolution, in the way that they desire.
Your level of intellectual curiosity is off-the-charts — you're constantly seeking truth and understanding in all facets of your life. You lean in to difficult problems.
You're a proactive self-starter, taking initiative and adapting in a fast-moving environment.
You work well with a diverse team and have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
You appreciate curated experiences. Our team has wildly different tastes, but we seek unique experiences. Expect frequent team excursions!
Symbiose Technologies embraces diversity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, citizenship, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.