Founding Engineer at David AI (S24)
$140K - $220K  •  
Data for audio AI
San Francisco, CA, US / New York, NY, US
Full-time
1+ years
About David AI
About the role
Skills: Next.js, Node.js, React, TypeScript, SQL

Join Us on Our Mission to Revolutionize Audio AI

We’re an ambitious audio AI data company backed by top-tier investors, solving the toughest challenges in audio research and product development. Our customers include some of the best AI research labs globally, and we’ve raised a $5M seed round to fuel our next stage of growth. With a founding team from Scale AI, we’re looking for a hands-on, entrepreneurial engineer who’s excited about shaping the future of audio AI with us.

What You’ll Do:

  • As a founding engineer, you’ll be at the heart of our product and engineering efforts, shaping everything from architecture to user-facing features. You will have the opportunity to work closely with our CTO and CEO, tackle some of the hardest audio AI challenges, and have a direct impact on revenue-generating solutions.
  • Build pragmatic 0-to-1 and 1-to-n solutions that directly drive customer impact and business growth
  • Solve complex, long-term audio data-related research problems with strategic business value
  • Collaborate closely with leading researchers at top AI labs, driving technical decisions with them every step of the way

Does This Sound Like You?

  • Experience or deep interest in audio AI, whether through product engineering, research, signal processing, or audio engineering
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with an extreme ownership mentality—your work and decisions will directly shape our success
  • Proven track record of shipping high-quality, end-to-end features in early-stage (0-to-1) and growth-stage (1-to-n) environments
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment, with a bias towards action and a ‘yes-first’ mentality
  • Excited to think like a founder. You’ll be working with our CTO and CEO daily, contributing to strategic and technical decisions 
  • Passionate about solving tough, complex technical challenges while delivering tangible value to customers
  • Willingness to pitch in and wear multiple hats as we grow (we’re all in this together!)

Technical Challenges You’ll Tackle:

  • Architect and ship end-to-end, full-stack features that directly address customer needs and enable rapid iteration on a daily basis
  • Design scalable engineering solutions to optimize and accelerate our data generation operations for large-scale audio datasets
  • Build and maintain data pipelines capable of processing terabytes of audio data daily, incorporating automated quality control and modern orchestration tools
  • Lead the development and deployment of innovative audio-focused ML/LLM models, managing the lifecycle from research/prototyping to full-scale production deployment

Our Current Tech Stack: We’re building with the latest and greatest tools, with an emphasis on performance, scalability, and rapid iteration. Proficiency in these is preferred but not required:

  • Web Application Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, TailwindCSS, tRPC
  • Database: PostgreSQL

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