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At Whisper, we’re shaping the future of hearing care by building software-defined hearing aids that utilize AI to enhance speech in real time. Whisper engineering is a team of artificial intelligence, audio, hardware, and software experts coming together to solve the challenge of making hearing better. If you're interested in building the technology that helps over 360 million people hear again, we’d love to meet you!
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Team member Q&A.
Nahal Farhi
Technical Lead
How many sub-teams do you have?
How does the team recognize good work?
Why do team members stay at the company?
Bryce Wilkins
Embedded Systems Engineer
How should candidates prepare for interviews?
How do you measure the success of individual team members?
How do you approach technical debt?
What are the hours like?
What’s the hardest problem you recently solved successfully?
What will new hires experience in their first 30 days?
Nicholas Reid
Hardware Engineering Manager
What have you learned since joining the company?
What do you make, who is it for, and why do they care?
What company value resonates with you most?
What’s hard about what you’re building?
What moment are you in as a team?
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Useful links
- Learn how Whisper is revolutionizing hearing aid technology in this article from Sequoia Capital.
- Our feature in Popular Science provides insights on our product and how it works.
- This VentureBeat article details why our co-founders, Dwight Crow and Andrew Song, were inspired to start Whisper.
- Watch this professional review of our hearing aid, which describes how our proprietary technology sets it apart from traditional hearing aids in the market.
Team size & roles
- 12 Audio Engineers
- 12 Embedded Software Engineers
- 6 Applications Engineers
- 6 Hardware Engineers
Meet the team →
Collaboration Practices
- No-meeting Wednesdays
- Weekly team standup
- Biweekly engineering all-hands
- Monthly company all-hands
Hours & location
- Flexible work hours
Tools we use
- TensorFlow
- Python
- Kubernetes
- Git
- .Net
- Prometheus
- BigQuery
- Github
- Jira
Company-level stats
- Technical founder(s)
- VC-backed
- CEO is a founder
- Funding: $11–50M
- Will sponsor work visa
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