Audio Software Engineer (Real-Time Audio)

Location: San Jose, United States

Salary: $170,000–$400,000 annually

Company

Artificial intelligence company developing multimodal agentic systems and next-generation hardware that interact with people through speech, text, vision, and persistent memory.

What you will do

• Own audio quality in the live client, including echo, self-interruption, dropouts, and clipping.
• Build and tune browser audio pipelines with the Web Audio API, AudioWorklet, and MediaStream constraints.
• Develop the end-to-end WebRTC audio path covering echo cancellation, noise suppression, and voice activity detection.
• Ship production DSP as C++ or Rust compiled to WebAssembly and as TypeScript in the audio pipeline.
• Tune endpointing, interruption handling, turn-taking, latency, and streaming artifacts.
• Manage audio features from prototyping through production and collaborate with designers, platform engineers, and the speech team.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience and experience shipping real-time audio to products used by real users.
• Hands-on experience with WebRTC, echo cancellation, noise suppression, and voice activity detection.
• Strong DSP fundamentals, including adaptive filtering, STFT, resampling, and gain control.
• Production experience with C/C++ or Rust DSP and browser delivery through WebAssembly.
• Working knowledge of the Web Audio API, AudioWorklet, MediaStream constraints, latency, buffering, and sample rates.
• Ability to own features end-to-end in a shared production codebase.

Nice to have

• Experience in voice, speech, or video-conferencing products.
• Audio ML or on-device inference experience, including RNNoise, DeepFilterNet, Silero VAD, ONNX Runtime, or Core ML.
• Familiarity with WebRTC internals, AEC3, Opus, LiveKit, or Pipecat.
• Experience with React, TypeScript, target-speaker isolation, diarization, barge-in, or conversational turn detection.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position with a US base salary range of $170,000–$400,000 annually.
• Total compensation may include additional components and benefits depending on the role.
• Work focuses on production systems operating in homes, cars, and noisy environments.