Staff Software Engineer, Speech

Role overview

Lead technical development of a real-time speech platform used in clinical workflows. Set architecture and engineering direction, guide speech models from evaluation into production, and build responsive audio capture, streaming, and backend services in partnership with research, infrastructure, product, design, and customer teams.

Responsibilities

- Establish technical direction and architecture for the speech function, while mentoring engineers. - Partner with research scientists to evaluate speech models and move suitable models into production. - Build and improve real-time audio capture and streaming in a React and TypeScript web application. - Design, operate, and improve distributed Python services and supporting infrastructure. - Diagnose production issues and improve reliability and performance using observability tools. - Collaborate across product, user experience, and customer teams to deliver features in a high-scale, healthcare-compliant environment.

Requirements

- At least seven years of professional experience developing audio or multimedia software. - Strong full-stack experience with TypeScript, React, and Python. - Hands-on experience with browser audio APIs such as Web Audio or AudioWorklet, and real-time audio streaming. - Strong experience with WebSockets, real-time client-server communication, and distributed systems. - Ability to troubleshoot production systems using observability tools. - Demonstrated technical leadership, including mentoring and guiding engineering decisions; strong unit and integration testing practices.

Nice to have

- Experience with FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, infrastructure as code, or Terraform. - Experience taking speech recognition or other machine learning products from model evaluation through rollout and production monitoring. - Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards, regulated healthcare environments, external integrations, and relational or document databases. - Experience with spec-driven development, AI-assisted engineering tools, or startup teams.

Benefits and work setup

- U.S. full-time benefits include medical, dental, vision, and life insurance; health and dependent care accounts; a 401(k); paid holidays; flexible time off; company and team gatherings; and an annual equipment stipend.