Staff Software Engineer, Speech

Rad AI•,

14d•$187,000 - $265,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Rad AI is a healthcare AI company focused on transforming radiology. They use AI-driven solutions to save time, reduce burnout, and improve patient care. The company has secured significant funding and their AI is used by thousands of radiologists daily, supporting a substantial portion of medical imaging in the U.S. Rad AI has been recognized as a promising healthcare AI company and a fast-growing company. They are looking for individuals passionate about driving innovation and delivering impactful healthcare solutions.

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

Nice To Haves

Experience with FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, and PostgreSQL
Experience with Infrastructure as code, particularly Terraform
Experience with ASR/STT, or ML-driven products such as speech recognition or NLP, from model evaluation (e.g. word error rate) through rollout and production monitoring
Experience with spec-driven development and AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g. Claude Code)
Experience in HIPAA-compliant environments, especially FHIR and HL7
Experience working at startups
Experience with 3rd-party integrations such as Auth0
Experience with relational and document based databases, as well as other large scale data storage paradigms

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 our React/TypeScript web application
Design and operate the distributed Python backend services that power our speech platform
Contribute to the infrastructure behind our 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