Product Engineer (Transcription) at Granola (London, United Kingdom)
Granola· London, United Kingdom·
Role details
Above Market Salary · Above Market Equity · Relocation Assistance
Summary
Join the founding team to build Granola's desktop transcription app, owning end-to-end features from audio capture to UI/UX. You will optimize performance, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and directly engage with users to solve transcription problems in a fast-paced startup environment.
Job description
Product Engineer (Transcription) — Granola
Location: London
Hey! We're team Granola 👋
We're looking for an engineer who loves audio and transcription, and loves building products in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
In this role, you will make Granola the best desktop transcription app that exists. You'll be talking directly with users to understand their transcription problems. You will be part of the founding team and help unlock Granola for the next 100x users.
In this role, you will:
- Own and build our transcription features end-to-end. Things like:
- Audio capture on macOS and Windows
- Echo cancellation
- Connections to transcription providers/models
- Local transcription models
- Diarisation/attribution
- Transcription UI/UX on our desktop app
- Logging and evals so we know whether all this is working/improving!
- Feel every transcription papercut, because you’ll be using Granola for every meeting!
- Optimise the application for speed, scale, and reliability
- Interact with users to understand their problems and design solutions
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, designers, and other members of the team to create a cutting-edge product
Your background looks something like:
- Experience with audio capture, real-time media pipelines
- Engineering experience at tech and product-driven companies
- Proficiency with TypeScript, Node.js, and React, and ideally Electron
- Comfortable dropping into native code and OS audio APIs (CoreAudio, WASAPI, …) when needed, even if you're not a low-level specialist
- Experience with speech-to-text models/providers
As a person, you…
- Are first and foremost a builder.
- Are excited to work in-person from our office in London (most of the time)
- Love working in a startup environment (you either have experience working in a startup or are really drawn to the zero-to-one phase)
- Value working with people who are kind, ambitious, and pragmatic
- Have an interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required)
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment with evolving requirements and priorities
About the opportunity
We are living in the most exciting time for tool builders since Engelbart's demo en.wikipedia.org/The_Mother_of_All_Demos in 1968. We want to assemble the best crew to build this future together, here in London. Our compensation philosophy is to pay slightly above market on salary and above market on equity.
We do our best work in person, and so our team spends time together five days per week in our new, bright, and spacious office at Old Street. We are happy to offer relocation assistance to candidates who'll be moving to London to join us.
Lastly, we think amazing talent comes from all kinds of life journeys and experiences. If what is written above speaks to you, whether you look like a fit on paper or not, please reach out.
Why work at Granola
- Culture: Small, tight-knit in-person team (~50 employees as of early 2026) with total ownership over your area of the product. Described as "high trust" with visionary founders. Office is beautiful, with breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided daily.
- Remote/Hybrid Policy: Office-first with flexibility built in — 5 days in office by default, but flexible for life circumstances. Remote up to four weeks a year.
- Notable Perks:
- Health Insurance (AXA for UK family; Aetna/Kaiser for US with dental & vision)
- 20 weeks primary / 12 weeks secondary parental leave (fully paid)
- 401(k) 100% match on first 3% of salary (US); 7% matching via Penfold (UK)
- Daily fresh lunch (office)
- Gym Boost: monthly contribution toward gym membership
- L&D Budget: annual budget for courses, books, conferences
- Life Insurance: 4x salary (UK); 2x up to $750k (US)
- Income Protection: 75% salary (UK); 60% up to $12k/month (US)
- Time Off: 25 days + bank holidays (UK); Unlimited PTO (US)
- Commuter Benefits: tax-free bike purchase (UK); pre-tax transit/parking (US)
- "Casa Granola" team getaway house in Majorca for offsites/deep work.
- Engineering Culture: AI-heavy, product-engineering focus. Roles include AI Engineer, Product Engineers (Backend, Full Stack, Windows), Design Engineer, and Security Engineer. Engineers work directly with co-founders on roadmap.