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Senior Software Engineer - Real Time Audio

New York City💼 Full-time💰 $160,000–$160,000🗓 2026-09-23 → 2026-10-02

Core

Building the real-time audio streaming layer for an AI-native expert network platform, enabling live voice interviews with low latency and high reliability.

Role type

Senior Software Engineer (Real-Time Audio & Voice Systems)

Builds

Scalable WebSocket infrastructure, speech-to-text pipelines, and live voice interview interfaces for enterprise research.

Domain

Enterprise AI, Real-Time Communication, Audio Processing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Real-time backend architecture, WebSocket/WebRTC, Speech-to-text integration, Audio pipeline engineering, Node.js/TypeScript, React, AI model orchestration

Preferred skills

Voice AI/conversational agents, Desktop app development (Electron/Tauri), In-browser audio APIs, Experience with STT providers (Deepgram/AssemblyAI)

Responsibilities

Design and evolve WebSocket infrastructure for thousands of concurrent live sessions, own the end-to-end speech-to-text pipeline from audio capture to transcript, ensure system reliability and graceful degradation under load, build scalable systems supporting tens of thousands of simultaneous users.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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