Staff Full Stack Engineer

David AI • San Francisco, CA

1d • $200,000 - $250,000

About The Position

David AI is the first audio data research company, bringing an R&D approach to data development with the rigor AI labs bring to models. Their mission is to bring AI into the real world, believing audio is the gateway due to its versatility, accessibility, and natural integration into everyday life. High-quality training data is identified as a bottleneck in advancing audio AI. Founded in 2024 by former Scale AI engineers, David AI has quickly gained customers including FAANG companies and AI labs, recently raising a $50M Series B. The company is seeking sharp, humble, and ambitious individuals for research, engineering, product, and operations roles to advance audio AI. The engineering team builds pipelines, platforms, and models to transform raw audio into high-signal data, operating in a fast-paced environment with daily production deployments. They design real-time pipelines for terabytes of speech data and deploy generative audio models. As a Staff Full Stack Engineer, you will lead the engineering team in building cutting-edge products to help customers understand audio data for model training, collaborating with researchers to refine data collection methods.

Requirements

• 6+ years of product-focused full-stack engineering experience.
• Strong web development fundamentals with experience building rapid prototypes and scalable user solutions.
• Proven track record delivering engineering solutions that provide customer value.
• Experience in fast-paced environments with detail-oriented execution.
• Focus on building intuitive, highly polished production-grade user experiences.
• Track record of success in technical leadership or engineering management.
• AI/ML or audio experience is not required but willingness to learn is essential.

Nice To Haves

• Educational or professional experience with digital signal processing and a deep understanding of speech.
• Experience building and deploying ML models in a production environment.
• Led (managed or tech-led) engineering teams in high-growth environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-stack feature development and iterate rapidly to deliver innovations to our users daily.
• Build scalable systems processing terabytes of audio data and deriving actionable insights.
• Deploy and evaluate LLM- and DSP-based solutions to enhance customer data understanding.
• Drive research iteration and interface deployment for data collection with researchers and Operations.
• Mentor engineers and establish technical standards as the team scales.
• Stay current with cutting-edge frameworks across software engineering, data engineering, ML, and signal processing.

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO.
• Top-notch health, dental, and vision coverage with 100% coverage for most plans.
• FSA & HSA access.
• 401k access.
• Meals 2x daily through DoorDash + snacks and beverages available at the office.
• Unlimited company-sponsored Barry’s classes.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed