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Staff Software Engineer, Voice Insights
Soundhound
WorldwideRemote1mo ago
- Employment
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Staff
About the role
Your Career, our Future—Together.
The Opportunity
What You'll Do
- Set the Voice Insights technical vision and direction, tackling complex, open-ended technical challenges across data, AI, and analytics.
- Act as a player / coach, driving architectural decisions while ensuring engineering excellence across the team.
- Balance customer needs with technical design to deliver high-impact, scalable value quickly.
- Apply advanced artificial intelligence techniques to process speech data, derive deep insights, and enable automated actions.
- Design and build highly scalable data pipelines and event-driven architectures to reliably process millions of voice AI interactions.
- Collaborate closely with product and platform teams to align technical roadmaps and build world-class systems.
- Identify and eliminate sources of toil and inefficiency in systems and processes, promoting operational maturity.
- Continuously improve customer onboarding, data reliability, and operational excellence.
What You'll Bring
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience in a technical leadership role driving architecture and strategy, ideally in distributed or data-intensive systems.
- Expert experience designing and implementing highly performant data pipelines and resilient event-driven architectures.
- Expert experience with cloud warehouse technologies like Google Big Query, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake.
- Strong Experience with Python, Google Pub/Sub and Reporting Tools.
- Proficiency in prompt engineering, including prompt design, evaluation, and deployment workflows for production systems.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and elevate technical quality and practices across multiple teams.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a growth mindset—comfortable with ambiguity, fast iteration, and making high-stakes technical trade-offs.
- Proven experience collaborating with customers or stakeholders to translate complex technical insights into measurable business impact.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience as a people manager or formal team lead.
- Familiarity with voice-enabled or conversational AI systems.
- Experience designing APIs for high-throughput applications.
- Understanding of cloud platforms and large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience using LLMs to accelerate development or extract meaning from data.
Workplace & Compensation
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Perks & benefits
- Paid Time Off
- Equity Compensation
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