David AI
Technology
SoftwareEngineer,Platform
Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Mid candidates.
“Software Engineer, Platform at David AI. Skills: Backend development, Distributed systems, Cloud infrastructure, Data pipelines. Design backend services. Build backend services”
Industry & Context.
Debugging; Optimization
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
3+ years backend development, Proficient with RESTful APIs, Proficient with service interfaces, Proficient with database design, Understanding of distributed systems, Understanding of service-oriented architecture, Extensive cloud infrastructure experience, Extensive infrastructure-as-code experience, Proficient in profiling, Proficient in debugging, Proficient in optimizing backend systems
Nice to Have
Experience launching systems from ground up, Familiarity with event-driven architectures, Familiarity with async processing, Familiarity with large-scale data pipelines, Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Familiarity with DevOps best practices, Built scalable data pipelines, Scaled up inference compute, Scaled up train compute
What You'll Do.
Design backend services
Build backend services
Maintain backend services
Own system architecture
Own system performance
Build resilient systems
Build observable systems
Build easy-to-debug systems
Collaborate with product teams
Collaborate with operations teams
Collaborate with ML teams
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Product teams; Operations teams; ML teams
Full Job Description
ABOUT DAVID AI David AI is the first audio data research company. We bring an R&D approach to data–developing datasets with the same rigor AI labs bring to models. Our mission is to bring AI into the real world, and we believe audio is the gateway. Speech is versatile, accessible, and human—it fits naturally into everyday life. As audio AI advances and new use cases emerge, high-quality training data is the bottleneck. This is where David AI comes in. David AI was founded in 2024 by a team of former Scale AI engineers and operators. In less than a year, we’ve brought on most FAANG companies and AI labs as customers. We recently raised a $50M Series B from Meritech, NVIDIA, Jack Altman (Alt Capital), Amplify Partners, First Round Capital and other Tier 1 investors. Our team is sharp, humble, ambitious, and tight-knit. We’re looking for the best research, engineering, product, and operations minds to join us on our mission to push the frontier of audio AI. ABOUT OUR ENGINEERING TEAM 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. ABOUT THIS ROLE As a Software Engineer, Platform at David AI, you’ll work across product surfaces to design clean APIs, build scalable services, and keep our systems performant under the weight of petabytes of audio data. IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL - Design, build, and maintain production-grade backend services that power everything from data collection to customer-facing insights. - Own the architecture and performance of distributed systems that ingest, transform, and serve audio data at
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