As Founding Engineer, you will architect an AI companion that replaces swiping with deep conversational coaching. You'll build sophisticated backend systems and voice processing pipelines to analyze emotional biomarkers, transforming how people find and maintain relationships. This is a high-ownership role shaping the technical foundation of a product disrupting the €8B dating industry.
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Founding Engineer at cherrish.one
Dating apps are broken by design, profiting from loneliness rather than love. Cherrish is fixing this by building a conversational AI companion that guides users from first dates to long-term relationship success. As Founding Engineer, you will architect a sophisticated voice-first platform that uses acoustic biomarkers to understand human emotion. With a 10-15% equity stake and a mission to disrupt an €8B market, you'll join a Grace Berlin Accelerator alum to build the future of human connection. If you have 5+ years of experience in AI agents or voice tech, this is your chance to lead a technical revolution in the heart of Berlin.
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Location
Berlin, Germany
Compensation
€90k + 10% Equity
Company
Cherrish
Role overview
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Cherrish is a female-curated dating app and AI Coach for ambitious women and confident men, focusing on love, relationships, self-reflection, and value-driven matches through voice-first, conversation-first, swipe-free, and invite-only dating. Founded in 2022 in Berlin, Germany, it aims to help outstanding women find deserving partners by combining AI coaching with a curated network of singles to detoxify traditional dating app models.
What you will do
- Architect and own the entire AI backend, including LLM orchestration, conversation state management, and vector-based semantic matching systems.
- Develop advanced audio processing pipelines to extract psychological signals and emotional biomarkers from user voice recordings beyond simple transcription.
- Collaborate directly with the founder to translate complex relationship psychology into scalable technical features for a live, growing user base.
Who this is a fit for
- 5+ years of engineering experience with a proven track record of shipping AI agent or voice-AI systems in production environments.
- Deep expertise in LLM orchestration and product-focused AI development, ideally within emotionally complex domains like mental health or coaching.
- Startup-ready mindset with the ability to own technical strategy end-to-end and make high-level product decisions alongside the founding team.
Why this role is remarkable
- Massive equity stake (up to 15%) in a mission-driven startup poised to disrupt the exploitative dating app business model.
- Work with a founder deeply embedded in the European ecosystem and supported by the Grace Berlin Accelerator ahead of a 2026 seed round.
- Pioneer the use of acoustic voice biomarkers and emotional AI to create a relationship "board member" that supports couples long-term.
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