The Role
Lead technical integrations of SoundHound's Voice AI and AI Agents with automotive partners. Act as primary technical contact, troubleshoot and escalate issues, translate partner needs into technical specs, coordinate cross-functional teams, manage project plans and timelines, and drive platform improvements while maintaining partner relationships and documentation.
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What You'll Do
What You'll Bring
Ready to join something big? At SoundHound AI, we bring voice, generative, and conversational AI together to transform how people interact with products and services. From voice-enabled vehicles to food ordering and customer support, our multilingual, omnichannel technology already impacts hundreds of millions worldwide.
The OpportunitySoundHound AI believes every person should be able to interact naturally with the products around them–by simply talking. With a global reach spanning two dozen languages, we build Voice AI products with conversational intelligence for cars, restaurant ordering, and more, allowing our customers to extend their brand in new and meaningful ways.
The Partner Engineer - System Integration is in relation with the engineering teams and helps build and maintain a working end-to-end solution, proposes quality targets, develops the tools for test execution and reporting and communicate best practices to help improve the product.
For this role, we’re looking for someone that will build and maintain our product platforms in order to validate our solution prior to its release.
The role requires strong software engineering and operations skills (including knowledge of key programming languages and concepts, design methodologies, etc.) as well as a strong testing mindset, plus exceptional communication skills for sharing and tracking issues internally, as well as support our partners integration effort.
This engineer will focus on multiple product platforms, in order to help deliver a stable, scalable, reliable product to our partners;
- You will assemble and integrate all the software and hardware that comprises our solution.
- You will be responsible for ensure the quality of the product - devising and running tests (functional as well as performance, stability, endurance etc) and providing up to date reporting.
- Create and lead a tailored Integration test strategy for our agentic platform.
- Establish quality metrics, acceptance criteria, and risk profiles.
- Champion QA best practices across delivery
- You will be in relation with our engineering teams to address any integration issue and deliver new product versions. You will also be in contact with other integration engineers to coordinate system updates and testing phases.
- You will be the go-to person with in-depth system knowledge, and will support our Automotive partners whenever the have questions about our products or have trouble integrating our solution. You will be an expert in a large number of subjects, ranging from audio processing pipelines, agentic frameworks, agents development, infrastructure issues, etc.
- You will have the first responsibility to investigate and troubleshoot issues using our tools and provide the necessary fixes on the partner side, if possible, and if needed, escalate issues to the engineering team with your initial detailed analysis, as well as providing concrete and actionable feedback.
- You will work closely with Technical Program Management (TPM), Engineering, and Product teams to work on system improvements, feature requests, and inform about emerging customer needs
- You have 5+ years of experience in software engineering (incl deveops) and a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Your experience in technical program management includes kubernetes, ansible, terraform, as well as Linux, Python, C++ as well as knowledge of AI technologies.
- You have demonstrated an ability to lead cross-functional and cross-cultural teams, managing complex projects in a dynamic, international environment.
Join SoundHound AI and collaborate with colleagues worldwide who are shaping the future of voice AI. Guided by our values—supportive, open, undaunted, nimble, and determined to win—we strive to build breakthrough AI experiences together.
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Discover more about our philosophy, benefits, and culture at https://www.soundhound.com/careers.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering or technical program management
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- Experience with Generative AI, Linux, Python, C++, and ASR
- Expertise with Android technologies and voice AI integration
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional, cross-cultural teams and manage complex international projects
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The Company
What We Do
At SoundHound Inc., we believe every brand should have a voice. As the leading innovator of conversational technologies, we’re trusted by top brands around the globe. Houndify, our independent Voice AI platform, with 70,000+ users, allows brands to create custom voice assistants that deliver results with unprecedented speed and accuracy. Our mission is to enable humans to interact with the things around them in the same way we interact with each other: by speaking naturally. We’re making that a reality through our SoundHound music discovery app and Hound voice assistant and through our strategic partnerships with brands like Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai, Deutsche Telekom, and Pandora. Today, our customized voice AI solutions allow people to talk to phones, cars, smart speakers, mobile apps, coffee machines, and every other part of the emerging ‘voice-first’ world. Our diverse team of engineers, UX/UI designers, writers, data scientists and linguists are all passionate about creating a world with more conversations. With more than 14 years of expertise in voice technology, we have hundreds of millions of end users, and a worldwide team in six countries building solutions for a voice-first world.
