Staff Software Engineer, Speech
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Staff Software Engineer leading Rad AI’s speech platform for radiology. Building real-time audio systems and distributed Python services to transform healthcare with AI.
Responsibilities:
- Act as technical lead for the Speech function: set direction, drive architecture decisions, and mentor engineers
- Partner with Research Scientists to take speech models from evaluation to production
- Build and evolve real-time audio capture and streaming in the React/TypeScript web application
- Design and operate distributed Python backend services powering the speech platform
- Contribute to infrastructure behind speech systems
- Debug and improve production reliability and performance using modern observability tools
- Work with Product, UX, and Customer Success to ship features in a high-scale, HIPAA-compliant environment
Requirements:
- 7+ years of industry experience developing audio or multimedia software
- Strong full-stack skills: in-depth TypeScript/React and Python
- Experience with browser audio APIs (Web Audio, AudioWorklet) and real-time audio streaming
- Strong experience with WebSockets and real-time client–server communication
- Experience building and operating distributed systems
- Comfortable debugging production issues with observability tools (e.g. Sentry, Grafana)
- Proven technical leadership: mentoring engineers and driving technical direction across a team
- Strong testing practices (unit and integration) and experience on distributed teams
- Candidates must be located anywhere in the United States
- Authorization to work lawfully in the US
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision & Life insurance
- HSA (with employer match), FSA, & DCFSA
- 401(k)
- 11 Paid Company Holidays
- Flexible PTO policy
- Annual company-wide offsite
- Periodic team offsites
- Annual equipment stipend
- Equity











