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Fullstack Hardware Engineer: Build smart collar hardware stack - PCBs, 3D printing, battery-efficient firmware. We have prototypes; need you to own hardware so we focus on distribution. Need: consumer product experience, 3D printing, firmware skills. Mostly C.

Canine Language Specialist: Ground AI models in real dog behavior. Design training protocols, collect data, teach dogs structured communication (buttons/vocals). Need: dog cognition experience, AAC systems, scientific mindset. Company: Decoding dog communication via smart collars using audio/motion/behavior data to understand what dogs are saying.

Apply: Email work samples, subject "{Dog's name} says {something}," explain what interspecies communication means to you.

Comment · 1 year ago

Yes exactly! Thank you!

Comment · 1 year ago

Looking forward to it! Did you sign up?

Comment · 1 year ago

We might be shipping outside the US before the US depending on how tariffs are when we get off the manufacturing line.

Comment · 1 year ago

Thank you! Really appreciate it.

Comment · 1 year ago

Company: We’re building smart collars and devices to decode dog communication—using audio, motion, and behavior data. Our goal is to understand what our dogs are trying to say and rethink the worlds of training, healthcare, and companionship as we uncover their language. We've trained models for dog vocalizations and movement patterns, and now we’re integrating behavior and intent.

Role: You’ll work closely with our engineering team to help ground our models in real-world behavior. From structured training sessions to experimental communication techniques (e.g. dog buttons, symbolic vocalization training), your work will directly shape how our devices interpret canine communication. You'll guide the design of training protocols, data collection, and help teach dogs how to speak using structured methods.

You:

+ Experience in dog cognition, vocalization, and training techniques.

+ Familiar with AAC devices or button-based communication systems.

+ Scientific mindset with hands-on experience.

+ Passionate about language and cross-species understanding.

+ Must have a dog (ideally one you’ve trained using vocal cues or buttons)

Apply: Send us an email with a video or write-up of your past work (bonus if it includes your dog using buttons or vocal cues) to [email protected] with subject: “{Your dog’s name} wants {something they want}.” In the body, tell us what interspecies communication means to you.

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If you refer someone to us, tell them to let us know and we'll send you a gift! (we aren't able to give a cash bonus just yet soon though)

Comment · 1 year ago

Company: We’re building smart collars and other devices to translate dogs into our language—using audio and motion data. We want to know what our dogs want and are on a mission to rethink the entire healthcare & training industries as we better understand them. We are mostly software people and have built our own models for dogs (soon expanding to my new cats).

Role: Hardware, firmware, and software. Moving fast will be a mix of LLM, research, hacks, and rapidly typing. Build fast, no hand-holding. First product’s a warm-up. After that, it gets real.

You: Full-stack in the real sense (hardware + firmware + software) Fast, independent, opinionated Move fast, care deeply Must have a dog Culture: Obsessed with dogs. We’re building the interface for interspecies communication. Not just “pet people”— we believe dogs are family members fully including legally (we can discuss the changes in law on our call).

Apply: Send us an email with your portfolio (or something similar) with a picture of you and your dog to [email protected] with subject “{Your dog’s name} likes {something they like}” and in the body include what this tech means to you.

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Role: This isn’t just marketing or vibes. You’ll shape product, brand, and behavior. You know how culture moves before it moves. You understand what dogs mean to us now—and what they could mean next.

You: Fluent in design, language, and social undercurrents Can shape narrative, product positioning, and human-dog interaction Unafraid to challenge Bernays view of the world Must have a dog. You live this. Culture: Obsessed with dogs. We’re building the interface for interspecies communication. Not just “pet people”— we believe dogs are family members fully including legally (we can discuss the changes in law on our call).

Comment · 2 years ago

You can set the minimum deployment to iOS 17 & then if someone has iPhone X*, 11 or SE then you can alert them to get a refund when they open the app either with a device check or total memory check. That'll set it so you remove most of the issues of older devices.

Source: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/models-compatible-wit...

Comment · 2 years ago

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Comment · 3 years ago

Honestly you need to annotate datasets for barks and we're building this up with our users. Otherwise it's unclear what's happening even with video (we tried to build a YouTube/Instagram scraper and it was very unreliable even with vet tech annotations).

Comment · 3 years ago

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Reference:

1. https://www.laika.berlin/en/blog/new-client-barkgpt-ai-dog-b...