Founding Engineer
Core
Co-designing and hardening a real-time voice infrastructure platform for multi-lingual translation, voice cloning, and contact center solutions.
Role type
Founding Engineer (Backend & Platform)
Builds
A voice infrastructure platform serving contact centers, AI agents, and public developers via SDK.
Domain
Voice infrastructure, real-time translation, audio streaming, and cloud security.
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Python (production-level), Async programming (FastAPI, asyncio, WebSockets), React with TypeScript, PostgreSQL (Row-Level Security), API design for public SDKs, CI/CD pipelines.
Preferred skills
Experience with WebRTC, WebSocket audio framing, jitter handling, streaming pipeline optimization, self-hosting LLM inference on GPU infrastructure.
Technologies
Python 3.12, FastAPI, WebSockets, asyncio, React, Vite, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, PostgreSQL, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Pulumi.
Responsibilities
Design and harden the public API contracts and SDK, own the voice pipeline (STT, translation, TTS, voice cloning), manage multi-tenant security and compliance (C2PA, HIPAA, SOC 2), plan infrastructure migration to AWS, and lead the roadmap for self-hosting models.
Seniority
Founding, hands-on IC with path to CTO
