Staff Software Engineer, Speech

The role

You will serve as the technical lead for Speech to set technical direction and mentor engineers. You will build a high-performance Speech Platform by partnering with Research Scientists, Infrastructure, and Product teams.

What you will do

• Act as technical lead for the Speech function
• Set direction, drive architecture decisions, and mentor engineers
• Partner with Research Scientists to take speech models from evaluation to production
• Build and evolve real-time audio capture and streaming in a React/TypeScript web application
• Design and operate distributed Python backend services
• Contribute to the infrastructure behind speech systems
• Debug and improve production reliability and performance using observability tools
• Work with Product, UX, and Customer Success to ship features in a HIPAA-compliant environment

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of industry experience developing audio or multimedia software
• In-depth TypeScript/React and Python skills
• Experience with browser audio APIs (Web Audio, AudioWorklet) and real-time audio streaming
• Experience with WebSockets and real-time client–server communication
• Experience building and operating distributed systems
• Experience debugging production issues with observability tools (e.g. Sentry, Grafana)
• Proven technical leadership: mentoring engineers and driving technical direction across a team
• Strong testing practices (unit and integration)
• Experience on distributed teams

Nice to have

• Experience with FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, and PostgreSQL
• Experience with Infrastructure as code, particularly Terraform
• Experience with ASR/STT, or ML-driven products such as speech recognition or NLP
• Experience with spec-driven development and AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g. Claude Code)
• Experience in HIPAA-compliant environments, especially FHIR and HL7
• Experience working at startups
• Experience with 3rd-party integrations such as Auth0
• Experience with relational and document based databases, as well as other large scale data storage paradigms

Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision & Life insurance
• HSA (with employer match), FSA, & DCFSA
• 401(k)
• 11 Paid Company Holidays
• Flexible PTO policy
• Annual company-wide offsite
• Periodic team offsites
• Annual equipment stipend

About the company

Rad AI is transforming healthcare with artificial intelligence. The company builds AI-driven solutions for radiology to reduce burnout and improve patient care.