Staff Software Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (AI): Leading architecture and evolution of hirify.global's voice platform for conversational AI with an accent on improving timing, responsiveness, audio quality, and reliability. Focus on integrating next-generation speech models, pushing latency boundaries, and bringing new voice capabilities to customers.

Location: San Francisco (in-office)

Salary: $300K–$375K + Equity

Company

hirify.global is the leading conversational AI platform, empowering brands to deliver concierge customer experiences through intelligent, human-like AI agents.

What you will do

• Own the architecture of hirify.global’s real-time voice runtime and shape its long-term roadmap.
• Lead initiatives that improve speech understanding, synthesis quality, and conversational timing.
• Define reliability, testing, and observability standards for live voice interactions.
• Build frameworks that make voice systems easy to debug, measure, and iterate on.
• Mentor senior engineers and help expand the technical culture of the Voice group.

Requirements

• 8+ years of engineering experience with significant technical leadership.
• Expertise in real-time systems, streaming pipelines, or audio-based applications.
• Ability to define architectural direction and lead cross-functional projects.
• Strong debugging skills across audio, networking, and model-driven systems.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing engineering standards.

Nice to have

• Experience with speech recognition or synthesis systems.
• Experience with VAD, streaming protocols, or other real-time audio systems.
• Experience designing or maintaining LLM-driven applications.
• Experience optimizing performance for low-latency use cases.

Culture & Benefits

• In-office company driven by values: customers are everything, relentless momentum, winner’s mindset, and stronger together.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Take what you need vacation policy.
• Daily lunches, dinners, and snacks in the office.