David AI

Engineering

SoftwareEngineer,Security

$160–200k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME
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“Software Engineer, Security at David AI”

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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, Security at David AI, you will shape and build the foundation for reliability, observability, and scalability across David AI's infrastructure. Working closely with our engineering and product teams, you’ll help ensure our systems are resilient, efficient, and designed to scale as the company grows. IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL - Own David AI’s observability stack, including monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing, to provide engineers with clear vi

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