David AI
Head of Engineering
New
200000 –280000 USD / yearUSAHeadmachine learninggenerative modelsaudio data processingproduct developmentinfrastructurefull-stack development
Senior technical leader responsible for leading engineering execution, developing technical vision and architecture, and managing an engineering team in the AI audio data domain.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of core tools that help users make sense of audio data for model training, working closely with researchers to continually improve how we collect data.
- Hire, structure, and mentor the engineering team while setting and upholding high performance standards.
- Oversee the delivery of full-stack features that thousands of users interact with daily. Build scalable data processing pipelines to extract actionable insights from terabytes of audio data every day.
- Rapidly iterate on research hypotheses in partnership with the Head of Research and Head of Operations - deploying interfaces to collect new data efficiently.
Nice to have
- Are a former founder.
Conditions
- Rapid career growth at one of the fastest growing Series A companies, within a new and booming industry.
- Competitive salary and equity package.
- Flexible PTO policy.
- Top-notch health, dental, and vision coverage with 100% company reimbursement for most plans.
- Paid lunch and dinner in the office, every day through DoorDash.
- 401k access.
Other
- At David AI, our engineers build the pipelines, platforms, and models that transform raw audio into high-signal data for leading AI labs and enterprises. We're a tight-knit team of product engineers, infrastructure specialists, and machine learning experts focused on building the world’s first audio data research company.
- We move fast, own our work end-to-end, and ship to production daily. Our team designs real-time pipelines handling terabytes of speech data and deploys cutting-edge generative audio models.
- As Head of Engineering, you'll be the technical backbone for our engineering team, leading execution across product, infrastructure, and AI systems. Partnering closely with the CTO, you'll co-develop the long-term technical vision and architecture, then translate it into a clear roadmap and operating cadence. You'll ensure delivery quality and nurture a collaborative, high-velocity engineering culture. This is a strategic role with broad autonomy where you'll shape how we build from day one.
- 3+ years of engineering management experience.
- Experience leading technical organizations through rapid growth phases at high-growth startups or scale-ups.
- Strong background in distributed systems, real-time data processing, or machine learning infrastructure.
- A high degree of comfort digging into systems with deep technology stacks.
- A passion for problem solving and providing technical leadership to peers.
- Next.js, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, Node.js, tRPC, PostgreSQL, AWS, Trigger.dev , WebRTC, FFmpeg.