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Aldea · 1 month ago

API Engineering Lead

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
senioritySenior Level
date5+ years exp

Aldea is a multi-modal foundational AI company reimagining the scaling laws of intelligence. They are seeking a highly technical API Engineering Lead to own and drive their API roadmap, leading architecture, implementation, and performance improvements across their real-time and batch speech APIs.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)SoftwareSpeech Recognition
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Responsibilities

Own end-to-end design, architecture, and evolution of Aldea’s customer facing and backend APIs
Architect for Scale & Speed: Design and evolve the global control plane for Aldea’s real-time (WebSocket/gRPC) and batch APIs
Productionize ML at the Edge: Build the high-throughput inference layer that wraps our speech models. Optimize for millisecond-level cold starts and efficient GPU utilization
Reliability & Observability: implement distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry) and define strict SLOs for streaming stability (e.g., jitter, connection drop rates)
Security by Design: Lead the implementation of enterprise-grade security (API keys, OAuth2, rate limiting) and compliance controls (SOC2, data retention) for sensitive audio data
Define API standards, versioning, authentication, usage metering
Partner with Research, Product, and Infra to deliver new capabilities
Mentor engineers and set best practices for API engineering

Qualification

API designArchitectureGoRust programmingStreaming systems experienceML infrastructure experienceDistributed systems knowledgeCloud native experienceMentoring engineersSecurity implementationPerformance tuning

Required

5–8 years backend/systems engineering experience
Strong experience building and running production APIs
Deep Proficiency in Go or Rust. (Python is great for modeling, but our hot path needs systems-level performance)
Experience with streaming systems (websockets, gRPC, real-time audio/video)
ML Infrastructure Experience: Familiarity with model serving (Triton, TorchServe, Ray) or orchestrating GPU workloads on Kubernetes/AWS
Deep understanding of distributed systems, performance tuning, async I/O
Cloud Native Fluency: Hands-on experience with AWS (EKS/ECS, Lambda, ElastiCache)

Preferred

Background in speech, audio, DSP, or ML inference pipelines
Experience building SDKs, developer tooling, or API billing/usage systems
Early-stage startup experience

Benefits

Equity participation
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
Flexible paid time off

Company

Aldea

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Aldea builds AI voice and language technology with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and conversational interfaces.
location
Miami, Florida, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://aldea.ai

H1B Sponsorship

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2020 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
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