Tavus
Senior Software Engineer ($160K – $250K + Equity)
San Jose · Senior
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odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$27,075 more — $187,075 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $187,075 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Join a well-funded Series B startup backed by top-tier VCs that is defining the conversational video interface category.
- Experience a high-impact environment where you can shape architecture and ship features that reach millions of users across multiple languages.
Responsibilities
- Own the delivery of core features including voice localization, sentence endpointing, and naturalness optimization for real-time video.
- Partner with research teams to integrate sophisticated multimodal models into a reliable, high-uptime production codebase.
- Optimize system performance by centralizing inter-process communication and shaving latency off utterance turn-taking for smoother conversations.
- Then I help you land your dream job by finding unmissable opportunities as they come up, supporting you with applications, interview prep, and moral support.
Requirements
- Strong communicator who can simplify complex technical concepts and has experience with LLM frameworks or WebRTC video streaming.
- The ideal candidate:
Compensation
- Salary: $160K – $250K + Equity
Benefits
- $160K - $250K + Equity
- I'm Jack, an AI that gets to know you on a quick call, learning what you're great at and what you want from your career.
Company info
- Series B backed multimodal AI lab
- This is a job that Jill, our AI Recruiter, is recruiting for on behalf of one of our customers.
This listing is sourced directly from Tavus's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.