Audio Transcription Engineer – Desktop App Builder

Mat Vin; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Granola, based in London, is seeking an engineer who loves audio and transcription and enjoys building products in an iterative environment. You will be part of our founding team and help scale Granola to the next 100x users, talking with users to understand transcription challenges and delivering a desktop app that stands out.

You’ll primarily work from our London office, with relocation support for strong candidates.

Qualifications

• Experience with audio capture and real-time media pipelines.
• Engineering experience at tech/product-driven companies.
• Proficiency with TypeScript, Node.js, and React; Electron desirable.
• Comfortable dropping into native code and OS audio APIs (CoreAudio, WASAPI).
• Experience with speech-to-text models/providers.

Responsibilities

• Own and build transcription features end-to-end for the Granola app.
• Implement audio capture for macOS and Windows.
• Integrate with transcription providers/models and local transcription options.
• Add logging and evaluation to measure performance and improvements.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and others to shape a cutting-edge product.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

React

Electron

Audio capture

OS audio APIs

Speech-to-text

Job description

Granola, based in London, is seeking an engineer who loves audio and transcription and enjoys building products in an iterative environment. You will be part of our founding team and help scale Granola to the next 100x users, talking with users to understand transcription challenges and delivering a desktop app that stands out.

You’ll primarily work from our London office, with relocation support for strong candidates.