Commure
Staff Backend Engineer, Ambient AI
$210K–$275K
Mountain View, CA +1 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA
San Francisco, CA - Experience
- 8+ years of professional backend or infrastructure engineering experience.
About the job
Build and operate reliable backend and distributed systems that ingest clinical audio, orchestrate AI processing, and deliver structured outputs for Commure’s Ambient AI products.
What you'll do
- Design and operate backend services and long-running workflows for audio processing and AI inference.
- Improve reliability, scalability, observability, and cloud infrastructure; define service-level objectives and lead incident response.
- Partner with product, mobile, AI, security, and clinical teams; mentor engineers and guide backend architecture practices.
What they ask for
- 8+ 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 building speech-to-text, diarization, transcription, or other audio-based machine-learning workflows.
- Experience orchestrating large language models or multi-model inference pipelines in production.
Pay
$210K – $275K USD base salary
Tools
Temporal, Kafka, Pub/Sub, SQS, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Sentry, Kubernetes
AI focus
Build and orchestrate Ambient AI workflows that process clinical audio using transcription, diarization, language models, clinical extraction, and summarization.
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