• Term: Full time, 6-9 month contract
• Location: Work From Home (any location in Australia)
• Salary: Negotiable, 80-110K pro-rata plus super; based on experience

Description:

We are Wonderchums.com, a small and passionate startup team working remotely to build our first children's app. We have a suite of diverse 'Wonderchums' characters with accompanying storybooks and media to help kids recognise their own strengths and those of other children so that we can promote diversity and positive self-esteem from childhood.

As our first tech employee, your primary focus will be to build the core digital product for Wonderchums. Components include:

• Creating a conversational AI character tool, selecting and integrating the best synthetic speech APIs, so that we can generate life-like learning conversations for children with our Wonderchums characters.
• Implementing text-to-speech animation of character; working remotely with the 3DCG artist, linking visemes to create automatic lip-sync; using 2D/3D rendering to generate automated animation.
• Integrating this tool into a web App platform for safe access by children.
• Guiding us on the best frameworks and APIs to build the solution with.

More about you:

• Passionate about solving complex problems.
• Detail oriented and self-motivated while being a collaborative team member.
• Willingness to get stuck in and be flexible within a fast moving startup.
• Possess an understanding of the lived experience of disability.
• The successful applicant will need to have a current Working With Children Check for all states they have lived in as an adult and a national Police Check.

More about us:

• We are an inclusive employer and much of our children's learning materials support inclusion and diversity.
• We are all 'Big Kids' - we still love our favourite childhood characters and shows just like it was yesterday!
• Culture of fun, learning, kindness and collaboration. Due to COVID most of us have never met in person, but we have a lot of fun as a team on zoom and support each other remotely.
• A team ethic that encourages innovation and puts strengths first, focusing on the diverse talents that all our team have to offer.
• A chance to create meaningful social change and impact thousands of children's lives.
• A challenging project that will push your abilities and enable you to grow professionally.

To be considered, you must have the right to work in Australia.

Visit our website: https://wonderchums.com/