David AI

Research Engineer

David AI
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San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$210k - $360k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design signal-processing algorithms, metrics, and ML models to derive insights from large-scale speech and audio data.
  • Build scalable pipelines for analyzing, filtering, deduplicating, and curating speech and audio datasets.
  • Develop production-grade inference algorithms, pipelines, and APIs with cross-functional teams.
  • Collaborate with Operations to gather training and evaluation datasets that improve model quality.
  • Architect resilient systems for inference and evaluations.
  • Translate research papers and ideas into maintainable, production-ready software and assess model quality against user experience and business value.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of professional engineering or applied research experience in data systems, algorithms, applied ML, information retrieval, speech, or audio.
  • Strong Python skills and experience building maintainable, production-quality software.
  • Experience owning ML pipelines from proof of concept through production deployment.
  • Experience deploying ML systems for production inference with cloud technologies.
  • Preferred experience with speech, audio, digital signal processing, data curation, search and retrieval, embeddings, clustering, deduplication, sampling, model inference, pretrained models, open-source software, or research publications.
  • A master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related field is a preferred qualification.

Benefits

  • Unlimited paid time off.
  • Health, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% coverage for most plans.
  • FSA and HSA access.
  • 401(k) access.
  • Meals twice daily through DoorDash, plus office snacks and beverages.
  • Unlimited company-sponsored Barry’s classes.

Tech Stack

Categories

Data EngineeringML Engineering
David AI

About David AI

51-200 employees

David AI builds high-quality audio datasets and data services for training speech and multimodal AI, offering collection, labeling, and R&D-grade curation. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in San Francisco, it sells to AI labs and enterprises developing voice products on a services/contract basis. The company is privately held and has raised a Series B to scale its audio data operations.

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