Staff Software Engineer

The role

A Staff Software Engineer will set technical direction across the product and make architecture decisions. You will build real-time AI systems and solve complex production issues.

What you will do

• Define the technical direction for core parts of the platform
• Make architecture calls other teams build on
• Spot and deal with problems like scaling limits or design issues early
• Take on the hardest builds including real-time pipelines and production issues
• Shape how the company builds, evaluates and ships AI systems
• Push back on Product, Clinical and engineering leadership
• Raise the engineering bar through design reviews and standards
• Grow senior engineers

Required qualifications

• Track record of setting technical direction for complex production systems
• Real experience building or running AI-powered systems in production
• Influence beyond your own team
• Good judgment on trade-offs between speed, quality and risk
• Ability to explain trade-offs to people who are not engineers
• Comfort with ambiguity
• Habit of turning unclear problems into a plan

Nice to have

• Experience in healthcare, clinical software or other safety-critical environments
• Familiarity with TypeScript and AWS
• Experience with real-time audio, speech or streaming systems
• Time at an early-stage company during a period of fast growth

About the company

Lyrebird turns real clinical conversations into accurate notes automatically. The company is growing across Melbourne, the UK, and Asia.