David AI

David AI

Staff Software Engineer, Platform

San Francisco · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 343 days ago
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About the role

  • Proficient in profiling, debugging, and optimizing backend systems.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain production-grade backend services that power everything from data collection to customer-facing insights.
  • Own the architecture and performance of distributed systems that ingest, transform, and serve audio data at scale.
  • Define and evolve internal APIs and service boundaries to support a growing set of ML and product features.
  • Build resilient, observable, and easy-to-debug systems with strong performance characteristics.
  • Collaborate with product, operations, and ML teams to rapidly iterate on new product + research ideas and ship fast.
  • 5+ years backend development building scalable APIs and services.
  • Proficient with RESTful APIs, service interfaces, and database design (PostgreSQL, MySQL).

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of distributed systems and service-oriented architecture.
  • Familiarity with event-driven architectures, async processing, or large-scale data pipelines.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices.

Nice to have

  • Experience launching systems from ground up in high-growth environments (preferred).

Skills

  • Extensive cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code experience.

Benefits

  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Top-notch health, dental, and vision coverage with 100% coverage for most plans.
  • FSA & HSA access.

Company info

  • David AI is the first audio data research company.
  • We bring an R&D approach to data-developing datasets with the same rigor AI labs bring to models.
  • Our mission is to bring AI into the real world, and we believe audio is the gateway.
  • Speech is versatile, accessible, and human-it fits naturally into everyday life.
  • As audio AI advances and new use cases emerge, high-quality training data is the bottleneck.
  • This is where David AI comes in.
  • David AI was founded in 2024 by a team of former Scale AI engineers and operators.
  • In less than a year, we've brought on most FAANG companies and AI labs as customers.
  • We recently raised a $50M Series B from Meritech, NVIDIA, Jack Altman (Alt Capital), Amplify Partners, First Round Capital and other Tier 1 investors.
  • Our team is sharp, humble, ambitious, and tight-knit.
  • We're looking for the best research, engineering, product, and operations minds to join us on our mission to push the frontier of audio AI.
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