Senior Software Engineer, Voice AI

Location: Remote

Compensation: $200,000–$220,000 + benefits

Company

Healthcare technology company developing real-time AI-powered medical interpretation technology that helps clinicians and patients communicate across language barriers. hirify.global is the specialist recruitment partner for the opportunity.

What you will do

• Build and scale real-time voice AI systems across streaming audio, speech recognition, translation, synthesis, and conversational workflows.
• Develop Python-based voice agents with real-time communication frameworks, session management, multi-party conversations, and complex audio interactions.
• Engineer production backend systems using Python, Go, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Improve audio performance by addressing background noise, speaker diarization, interruptions, latency, and natural conversation flow.
• Develop clarification handling, safety guardrails, and reliable responses when speech is unclear or communication breaks down.
• Own engineering work end to end, from problem identification and architecture through deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in backend, full-stack, or applied AI product development.
• Hands-on experience building real-time voice AI, conversational systems, or audio-streaming applications, including LiveKit, Pipecat, or comparable frameworks.
• Strong Python proficiency, including asynchronous programming, production APIs, and real-time application development.
• Solid backend engineering fundamentals and Go experience or the ability to become productive in Go quickly.
• Understanding of streaming architectures, WebRTC, telephony, speech processing, or speech and language AI service integrations.
• Experience independently delivering production features, making technical decisions, and communicating engineering trade-offs.
• Product-oriented mindset and interest in building reliable systems for real-world user environments.
• Ability to work independently, own substantial technical problems, and explain engineering decisions clearly.

Nice to have

• Healthcare experience.
• Familiarity with regulated environments, multilingual systems, or speech technology.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent remote role with compensation of $200,000–$220,000 plus benefits.
• Small, technically strong team with substantial ownership and influence over product architecture.
• Startup pace and autonomy combined with the resources and reach of a larger organization.
• Work on applied AI technology already used in clinical settings to improve healthcare communication.