Take2

Senior Software Engineer, Voice AI

11mo ago
140000 –200000 USD / yearUSASeniorRemote
Take2

Senior Software Engineer, Voice AI

11mo ago
140000 –200000 USD / yearUSASeniorRemotevoice aivadsttllmttsbackend

Senior Software Engineer with expertise in Voice AI and backend engineering to scale AI Interviewer platform.

Responsibilities

  • Take2 AI is hiring a Senior Software Engineer with deep Voice AI expertise and strong backend engineering skills.
  • Our real-time voice agent pipeline (VAD + STT → LLM → TTS) already powers thousands of candidate conversations every month—now we’re scaling to millions. You’ll tackle challenges in low latency, high reliability, and large-scale architecture, shaping how our platform evolves as we grow.
  • This role is hands-on, highly technical, and perfect for someone who thrives in a startup environment, playing a key role from design through production with significant ownership over technical execution and direction.

Nice to have

  • Experience self-hosting AI/ML models for use in voice AI pipelines, including tuning and optimizing them for performance and reliability
  • Experience owning and operating distributed systems in high-throughput, streaming, low-latency environments, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance under real-time constraints

Conditions

  • Competitive salary + meaningful equity. This is a chance to join at a stage where your work meaningfully shapes the product and your career trajectory.

Other

  • Take2 builds AI Interviewers that automate the entire screening process — reviewing resumes, conducting structured phone screens, and scheduling next steps.
  • Today, our customers are leading healthcare organizations. Every month, we help hospitals and health systems hire faster, reduce recruiting overhead, and fill critical clinical roles more quickly.
  • When healthcare organizations hire faster, patient care improves. Staffing gaps shrink. Burnout decreases. The ripple effects are real.
  • We already power thousands of candidate conversations each month. Now we’re scaling to millions — at a time when healthcare workforce infrastructure needs transformation.
  • 6+ years software engineering experience (backend or full stack)
  • Bachelor’s in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
  • Direct, hands-on experience integrating and optimizing STT, TTS, VAD, and LLMs for real-time voice agents
  • Scaled and optimized voice pipelines for low latency, high availability, and real-time performance
  • Designed and implemented agent orchestration, evaluation frameworks, and related tooling
  • Shipped production AI applications with real-time inference, integrating ML models into live systems
  • Built and operated distributed backend systems with monitoring and observability in place
  • Strong proficiency in Python, JavaScript, Node.js, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker
  • 2+ years at an early to mid-stage startup (Series B or lower)
  • Own and scale the end-to-end voice agent pipeline that already powers thousands of monthly conversations—help us grow it to millions
  • Select, integrate, and tune models for optimal latency, quality, and reliability
  • Build orchestration logic, evaluation systems, and supporting backend services
  • Ensure low latency, high availability, and scalability of voice agent infrastructure
  • Collaborate closely with product and engineering to rapidly prototype and deliver features, playing a key role in driving the vision and evolution of our platform and product with significant ownership over technical execution and direction
  • We’re NYC-based and work hybrid (in-office Mon-Thu). We value in-person collaboration but also trust people to manage their time responsibly.