Staff Engineer

Posted 4 Days Ago
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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
190K-250K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Natural Language Processing • Productivity • Software
The Role
Own and operate end-to-end systems: GPU inference for ASR, real-time low-latency transcription (WebSockets, failover), native apps (Swift, C#, Electron IPC), backend (Django, Celery, Postgres), infra (Fly.io, Terraform, AWS, Redis). Ship production-quality code across the full stack.
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About Us

Aqua Voice is building the voice input layer for the age of AI. We train our own models and build deep OS integrations because doing voice well requires controlling the entire stack.

The way people work is changing. IC work is over; you manage AI agents now. This type of work is wonderfully suited for voice.

We aren't building conversational agents. We believe the most natural way to interact with your computer is voice in text out (VITO). We believe that voice belongs at a level above the application, and that a small company can win by pushing the envelope.

We are applying relentless energy to this opportunity and the results so far have been good. We hope you will join us.

The Role

You will own technical systems across the stack. We're a small team, post-product-market-fit, and growing. We have real users and real problems.

We prefer modern tools—Bun over Node, Fly over AWS when it makes sense, PyTorch over legacy ML frameworks.

The Work

GPU inference: We run our own ASR models.

Real-time transcription: WebSocket state machines, multi-provider failover, sub-100ms latency targets. We track 30+ metrics per session.

Native apps: Swift on macOS, C# on Windows, Electron IPC. System-level programming.

Backend: Django for billing and analytics (oops). Celery for background jobs. PostgreSQL.

There are no separate infrastructure and product teams. You will work on all of it.

Stack

- Languages: TypeScript, Python, Swift, C#

- Runtime: Bun, Node.js, Django, FastAPI

- ML: PyTorch

- Infra: Fly.io, Terraform, AWS (RDS), Redis

- Protocols: gRPC, WebSocket, REST

What We're Looking For

- Experience building and operating systems at scale

- Strong opinions about architecture, loosely held

- Comfortable being the most senior technical person in the room

- Able to take vague problems and ship working systems

- Code that survives production

Skills Required

  • Experience building and operating systems at scale
  • Experience with GPU inference and ASR models
  • Experience implementing real-time transcription with WebSockets, multi-provider failover, and low-latency targets
  • Native app development: Swift on macOS and C# on Windows; Electron IPC
  • Backend experience with Django, Celery, and PostgreSQL
  • Proficiency with PyTorch
  • Familiarity with infrastructure: Fly.io, Terraform, AWS (RDS), and Redis
  • Proficiency in TypeScript and Python
  • Comfortable being the most senior technical person in the room and taking vague problems to ship systems
  • Produce production-quality, maintainable code
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The Company
3 Employees
Year Founded: 2023

What We Do

Aqua Voice, Inc. is an AI company developing fast, accurate voice dictation software for Mac, Windows, and iPhone. Its core product, powered by the proprietary Avalon speech model, enables users to talk into any text field with state-of-the-art accuracy, converting speech into clean, formatted text. The company focuses on helping developers, technical writers, and other professionals write significantly faster using their voice.

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