Rad AI
Staff Software Engineer, Speech
$187K–$265K
United States - Remote · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of industry experience developing audio or multimedia software.
About the job
Leads technical direction for Rad AI’s Speech function and builds a real-time speech platform for radiologists, from audio capture and model deployment to backend services and production reliability.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction, make architecture decisions, and mentor engineers.
- Partner with research scientists to bring speech models into production and build real-time audio capture and streaming in the web application.
- Design and operate distributed Python services and improve speech-system infrastructure, reliability, and performance.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of industry experience developing audio or multimedia software.
- Strong TypeScript/React and Python skills; experience with browser audio APIs and real-time audio streaming.
- Strong experience with WebSockets, real-time client–server communication, and distributed systems.
- Technical leadership, production debugging with observability tools, strong unit and integration testing practices, and experience on distributed teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Terraform, or HIPAA-compliant environments, especially FHIR and HL7.
- Experience with ASR/STT or ML-driven products, spec-driven development, AI-assisted engineering tools, third-party integrations, or large-scale data storage.
Pay
$187K – $265K (base salary)
Tools
TypeScript, React, Python, Web Audio, AudioWorklet, WebSockets, Sentry, Grafana
AI focus
Partner with Research Scientists to evaluate and deploy speech models; preferred experience includes ASR/STT and ML-driven speech recognition or NLP products, from model evaluation through production monitoring.
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