Openmart
Local business data intelligence platform
First ML engineer
$150K - $250K•1.00%•Foster City, CA, US
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Richard He
Founder
Richard He
Founder
About the role
Machine Learning Engineer (Audio Training)
We’re building human-like, real-time voice models focused on natural turn-taking, interruption handling, and low-latency speech.
What you’ll do
- Design and generate conversational audio training data
- Train and fine-tune audio / speech models
- Build evaluation for latency, overlap, and interruption
- Own the loop: data → training → eval → production
What we’re looking for
- Strong ML background (PyTorch)
- Experience with audio or speech models
- Solid intuition for timing, latency, and real-time systems
- Startup / ownership mindset
Nice to have
- TTS, ASR, speech-to-speech, or streaming inference experience
Competitive comp + meaningful equity. Founding-level ownership.
About the interview
- intro call
- technical screening
- onsite :)
- culture checkk
About Openmart
We are Openmart and we are creating the world’s largest live directory of local businesses. We help sales professionals query millions of unstructured business data like websites, product catalogs, reviews and socials.
Both of our founders are located in Foster City and we work in a loft where Richard lives in. Both of us have dogs and have a very dog-friendly office!
Team
Richard
- Richard was a senior software engineer at Cruise working on ML. Then joined as founding engineer at Graft, funded by NEA and GV where he trained and finetuned large-language models.
- Built an AI agent as weekend project that got on to GitHub trending projects
Kathryn
- First product manager at Databento, which was funded by Redpoint venture which sells market data API’s.
- Previously was on various growth teams at Pinterest and ran hundreds of A/B testings.
- She also runs a DTC tea brand where she experienced the problem that led to the idea of Openmart We’ve known each other at Pinterest back in 2019 and have been good friends ever since. Openmart’s idea stems from our founder’s own pain points. Kathryn faced GTM challenges while launching her beverage brand trying to find great local business leads.
Founders
