Commure
Senior Backend Engineer, Ambient AI
$170K–$230K
Mountain View, CA · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years of professional backend or infrastructure engineering experience.
About the job
Build and operate the backend systems that ingest clinical audio, orchestrate AI workflows, and reliably deliver clinical outputs for Commure’s Ambient AI products.
What you'll do
- Own audio ingestion and processing, durable storage, and recovery from interrupted or out-of-order uploads.
- Build and operate distributed inference workflows, improving reliability, scalability, observability, and recovery.
- Lead incident response and partner with mobile, product, AI, security, and clinical teams on production-ready workflows.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of professional backend or infrastructure engineering experience.
- Experience designing, building, and operating production distributed systems.
- Strong proficiency in at least one modern backend programming language.
- Experience with asynchronous processing, message queues, event-driven systems, or durable workflow execution.
Nice to have
- Experience with audio/video ingestion or speech-to-text, diarization, or transcription workflows.
- Experience orchestrating large language models or multi-model inference pipelines in production.
Pay
$170K – $230K USD base salary
Tools
Temporal, Kafka, Pub/Sub, SQS, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Sentry, Kubernetes
AI focus
Build and orchestrate production AI workflows for transcription, diarization, language models, clinical extraction, and summarization; support model routing, versioning, evaluation, and recovery.
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