What You'll Do
- Contribute targeted software improvements to the platform Service Layer and other components as needed
- Help address customer feedback as platform adoption increases
- Implement comprehensive automated tests to ensure production changes can be made quickly and safely
- 4 years of professional experience working on complex latency-sensitive production systems
- Ability to read and understand complex C++ code, and make targeted changes as needed
- High proficiency with Python for production-grade software
- Understanding of fundamental data structures, algorithms, and design patterns to solve business problems with code
- Skill in methodically solving complex problems from first principles
- Natural curiosity to experiment to find optimizations on key metrics
- High agency and resourcefulness to be successful despite challenges and changing requirements
- Deep commitment to collective success
- Experience with audio processing (esp. streaming)
- Experience using Docker and Kubernetes to automate deployments
Top Skills
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.
