What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer: Voice Interaction position at Yves Robotics?
Yves Robotics is building a simple, non-humanoid robot for the home. Its primary function is to be an active AI agent for everyday humans to help them record their thoughts, remind them to do things, and be a lovable, simple agent and being.
Our aim is to bring life to a new species of beings into human existence. In the coming two decades, we will either flood the world with disingenuous humanoids—slop with arms—or we will introduce new characters who we cherish and who evolve our distinctly human existence. Robots may not have souls like we do, but they will have the souls we give them.
The breakthrough can only come from a robot that is made to be a robot. Not one built in the physical image of man nor one pretending to be your dog. A robot with the ability to express its own worldview based on its inherent form, capabilities, and limitations.
The world need not be worried if a robot will be able to one day fold your laundry or do your dishes. The billions of dollars spent on research and development will soon make such capabilities a reality. But will you want such a robot? Will your children love one? And how will it change your life not as measured by your previous manual labor, but as a person?
One day, a robot will exist in your home. It can either be an impersonal gray skin of wires, or it can stumble out of its box clumsily, say a timid and optimistic hello, and get to know the first person it has ever known.
You.
We are in search of a software engineer with experience building real-time interactive voice systems.