Member of Technical Staff: iOS Engineer

About ego

AI applied research lab building synthetic sapience; human-like AI

Tech description:

Unreal Engine, C++, AWS, Azure, Roblox

Job description:

Member of Technical Staff: iOS Engineer (Ego) Location: San Francisco, CA (hybrid) · Reports to: Founding team

## About the role

Ego AI is a YC-backed applied AI research lab building the behavioral infrastructure for AI companions and agents. We work at the intersection of real-time conversational instincts, memory, and persistent identity; the layer that makes AI feel genuinely alive. We're a small, fast-moving team and we're defining a new category of human-AI interaction.

## What you'll do

* Own the iOS surface for Ronin — our suite of AI agents — from design handoff to production
* Work directly with our designer and backend engineer to implement high-fidelity designs with precision and speed
* Build and maintain the core mobile experience: real-time voice interfaces, conversational flows, and agent interactions
* Ship fast, iterate with the team, and take full ownership of the mobile codebase

## What we're looking for

**Must have**

* Shipped at least one consumer iOS app with real users
* Strong SwiftUI fundamentals and comfort owning a codebase end-to-end
* Ability to implement high-fidelity designs faithfully — pixel precision matters
* Always-ship mindset: you close loops, don't leave things in draft, and take pride in getting things out the door

**Nice to have**

* Experience building agentic or LLM-powered features on mobile
* Background in consumer apps — social, utility, or anything with high daily engagement
* Familiarity with real-time audio or voice interfaces
* Comfort working in a fast-moving, early-stage environment where the product is still being definedProjects this hire will own

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Use AI tools freely. We do. You will walk us through the design and defend every trade-off, so own each decision in the repo.