Software Engineer II

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Hiring Remotely in Canada
Remote
Natural Language Processing • Software • Conversational AI
The Role
Your Career, our Future—Together.
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 Opportunity
This role is focused on helping scale SoundHound’s proprietary real-time audio-to-audio platform in order to support next generation Conversational AI solutions. This includes new product integrations, reducing latency, and improving general platform robustness.

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

What You'll Bring
Must Have
  • 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

Nice-to-have:
  • Experience with audio processing (esp. streaming)
  • Experience using Docker and Kubernetes to automate deployments

Workplace & Compensation
This role is available throughout Canada. Employees within a 100-kilometer radius of our Toronto office are expected to work from the office on three pre-scheduled “core days” each month to encourage cross-team connection and in-person collaboration.

Compensation includes salary, equity, comprehensive healthcare, paid time off, and other benefits. Our recruiting team will provide a specific salary range based on location and years of experience.

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Let's Start the Conversation
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.

We provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities throughout the hiring process and employment. To view our job applicant privacy policy, please visit https://static.soundhound.com/corpus/ta/applicantprivacynotice.html.

Discover more about our philosophy, benefits, and culture at https://www.soundhound.com/careers.

***Please beware of agency recruiters falsely stating that they represent SoundHound AI on job posts. Our job post above will note if we are utilizing a specific agency to assist with the search. Our recruiters use @soundhound.com email addresses exclusively.

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The Company
HQ: Santa Clara, CA
345 Employees
Year Founded: 2005

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.

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