Slingshot AI
Slingshot AI is the team behind Ash, the first AI designed for mental health. Our mission is to make support more accessible and help people change their lives in the ways they want.
We’re building a world-class team by empowering individuals with the autonomy, flexibility, and support they need to do their best work. We dream big, iterate fast, and care deeply. If that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.
Our team spans machine learning, product, engineering, conversational design, clinical, growth, and operations, with offices in both New York City and London.
We're a well-funded Series A company, having raised $93M from Andreessen Horowitz, Radical Ventures, Forerunner Ventures, plus top-tier tech investors involved in ElevenLabs, Captions, Shopify, Plaid, Notion, Canva, Twitch, Airtable, and many others.
The role
This is a chance to join a passionate team leveraging cutting-edge AI to improve mental health access globally. As a Senior Product Engineer, you will play a critical role in building the systems and services that make the Ash product possible.
As a core member of a small but highly skilled team, we expect you to act as an owner and to care passionately about keeping our systems scalable, performant, and secure. Once you’re embedded in the team, you will get the opportunity to lead projects of your own, with goals to make our products better, faster, and more reliable.
You will have the opportunity to interact and contribute to our entire tech stack. From our backend services (Kotlin), our mobile app (Flutter/Dart), internal tooling (Next.js/TypeScript), and model training pipelines (Python). We use gRPC and GCP (Kubernetes, Cloud Run) as our primary cloud provider.
About you:
Thrive building mobile and web applications zero-to-one. Working with different technologies across the whole vertical, including frontend, databases, and any relevant infrastructure.
Strong software engineering experience in multiple general-purpose programming languages and with modern technologies and architectures, e.g. microservices, message queues, caching layers, and databases (ideally, SQL and NoSQL)
Driven by building a world-class product with a world-class team, want to own what you build, and you’re comfortable building and throwing away code.
Experience working in a fast paced environment, working at lightning speed to ship fast.
Self starter and a keen learner with an ability pick up new tools, languages, and concepts on the job. We don’t need you to be an Machine Learning Engineer, but having an interest in AI helps!
Key responsibilities:
Collaborate within our core Engineering team, Product Manager and Designer to quickly design, build, and launch new features in our app, taking ownership of the whole stack.
We encourage everyone to be comfortable working in all parts of our stack, which includes the app (Dart/Flutter), internal tooling (Next.js/TypeScript), and ML scripts for evaluation, data processing, and model training (Python).
Elevate user experience by continually refining app reliability, performance, and polish.
Rapidly investigate, diagnose, and resolve bugs to ensure product stability.
Taking initiative to independently prototype new features based on customer feedback and your own product intuitions.
What we offer:
A chance to join a passionate tight-knit team working on something to change the world
Competitive compensation (we target 90th percentile)
Travel between our NYC / London offices
Usual startup perks like free lunch in our offices + generous learning budget
Generous budget to cover your personal therapy
Top Skills
What We Do
About Us
We're a team of machine learning and product engineers training task-specific generative models for psychology. Our mission is to use AI to make mental healthcare more accessible and to help people change their lives in the ways they want. We partner with organizations around the globe and power use cases, including AI-assisted crisis text response and AI counseling, while securing best-in-class datasets to power our models.
Success to us means every human being in need of support having somewhere to go. We're a well-funded, seed-stage startup backed by top-tier tech investors involved in ElevenLabs, Captions, Shopify, Plaid, Notion, Canva, Twitch, Airtable, and others.
We're building a powerful team by empowering our engineers with the autonomy, flexibility, and resources to do their best work. We dream big and iterate fast. If that sounds like home, we'd love to hear from you.
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