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Liva AI

Scale AI for video and voice data.

Founding Engineer

$140K - $250K*0.50% - 2.00%*San Francisco, CA, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Full stack
Experience
Any (new grads ok)
Visa
US citizen/visa only
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Ashley Mo
Ashley Mo
Founder
Ashley Mo
Ashley Mo
Founder

About the role

As part of Liva's engineering team, you'll have end-to-end ownership
over projects that define how frontier AI data is collected,
validated, and quality-assured. You'll work on a mix of platform
engineering and infrastructure development (scaling data platforms,
building human-in-the-loop systems, designing evaluation pipelines).

You might build a mobile app for data collection one week, design an
automated QA pipeline with intelligent validation systems the next,
and then improve our annotation platforms. You'll also play a key
role in developing AI agent-driven workflows that automate core
operations.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

  * Design and build data collection platforms: web apps, mobile
    apps, and annotation interfaces
  * Build robust QA pipelines with automated validation, quality
    checks, and error detection systems
  * Lead the automation of key operational processes
  * Participate actively in code reviews and technical design
    discussions
  * Contribute to the core infrastructure powering data collection
    and quality assurance for leading AI labs

REQUIRED SKILLS:

  * Super fast at shipping
  * Can flexibly learn and adapt to new tools/goals
  * Strong coding fundamentals in Node.js / TypeScript, Python, and
    React/Next.js
  * Experience building web applications and ideally mobile apps
  * Familiarity with AWS, databases, and API design
  * Strong communication skills and a bias toward ownership,
    curiosity, and delivering simple solutions to complex problems
  * Bonus: Experience with annotation platforms, data labeling tools,
    human-in-the-loop workflows, or mobile app development

BENEFITS:

  * Daily lunch & dinner covered
  * Free gym membership
  * Health insurance
  * Opportunity to be an early member of a fast growing YC-backed
    startup

About Liva AI

Liva's mission is to make AI look and sound truly human. The AI
voices and faces today feel off, and lack the capability to reflect
diverse people across different ethnicities, races, accents, and
career professions. We're fixing that by building the world's richest
library of human voice and video data, fueling the next generation of
realistic AI.

Liva AI
Liva AI
Founded:2025
Batch:S25
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
  
 
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