Recruiting from Scratch · 1 day ago
Staff Software Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$300K/yr - $375K/yr
8+ years expRecruiting from Scratch is a specialized talent firm dedicated to helping companies build exceptional teams. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the architecture and evolution of a real-time voice runtime for a rapidly scaling conversational AI platform used by major consumer brands.
Staffing Agency
Hiring Manager
Trisha Craddock
Responsibilities
Lead the architecture and long-term evolution of the real-time voice runtime
Own multi-quarter initiatives that improve timing, latency, responsiveness, and stability across millions of voice interactions
Drive improvements in speech understanding, synthesis quality, and conversational pacing
Define reliability, testing, observability, and debugging standards for live voice systems
Build frameworks and tooling that allow engineers to measure and iterate on voice performance
Partner closely with Research to integrate new speech models and with Infrastructure to push technical performance boundaries
Mentor senior engineers, set technical standards, and help scale the Voice engineering organization
Qualification
Required
8+ years of software engineering experience with meaningful technical leadership
Deep expertise in real-time systems, streaming pipelines, audio applications, or similar performance-critical architectures
Ability to define high-level architectural direction and lead complex cross-functional initiatives
Strong debugging skills across audio, networking, distributed systems, and model-driven pipelines
Experience mentoring engineers and influencing engineering culture and best practices
Preferred
Experience with automatic speech recognition (ASR) or text-to-speech (TTS) systems
Familiarity with VAD, audio streaming protocols, or real-time audio frameworks
Experience building or optimizing LLM-driven applications
Expertise designing systems for ultra-low-latency, high-reliability environments
Benefits
Equity: Competitive
Medical, dental, and vision benefits
Flexible “take what you need” vacation policy
Daily in-office lunches, dinners, and snacks
High-growth environment with strong ownership and velocity
Company
Recruiting from Scratch
A recruiting agency working with technology companies to help them hire software engineers, data roles, product managers, and hardware.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Will Sanders
Founder / CEO
Tom Callahan
Managing Partner, Retained Executive Search
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