Member of Technical Staff

San Francisco. Posted 3 months ago

The role

You will work across the full range of building voice AI, from low-level platform and infrastructure engineering to applied research. You will take end-to-end ownership from design through production.

What you will do

Own problems end-to-end from architecture and design through shipping and iteration in production.
Work across the stack including platform and infrastructure engineering, backend services and APIs, product surfaces, or applied research.
Partner with research and ML to translate frontier voice AI capabilities into production-grade systems.
Help set technical standards and practices for the team.
Work on various tasks such as infra, research prototypes, or customer-facing features.

Required qualifications

Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science from a top university.
Proven track record of building and shipping production systems.
Demonstrated ability to work across the full range from platform engineering to research.
Strong engineering fundamentals in clean, testable, maintainable code.
Full-stack fluency in frontend, backend, infrastructure, or ability to pick up new stacks quickly.
Ownership mindset to take problems from ambiguous to shipped.
Execution speed to ship, learn, and iterate quickly.
Autonomy to thrive with real scope and minimal oversight.
AI-native using modern AI tooling like coding agents and LLM APIs.

Nice to have

Experience with real-time or streaming systems (WebSockets, WebRTC, audio/media pipelines).
Experience at an early-stage startup where you helped set technical standards.
Familiarity with voice, telephony, or conversational AI products.
Former founder or technical lead.

Benefits

Salary and equity
Free breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided in the office
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision
Regular off-sites and team celebrations
401(k)

About the company

Phonic is the speech-to-speech model company. Their models power voice agents on six continents for various companies.