Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Rad AI is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to serve as technical lead for its Speech function and build a responsive, high-performance speech platform for radiologists. The role sets technical direction, brings speech models into production, develops real-time audio and distributed backend systems, and improves reliability in a healthcare environment.
Responsibilities
- Act as technical lead for the Speech function: set direction, drive architecture decisions, and mentor engineers
- Partner with Research Scientists to take speech models from evaluation to production
- Build and evolve real-time audio capture and streaming in our React/TypeScript web application
- Design and operate the distributed Python backend services that power our speech platform
- Contribute to the infrastructure behind our speech systems
- Debug and improve production reliability and performance using modern observability tools
- Work with Product, UX, and Customer Success to ship features in a high-scale, HIPAA-compliant environment
Skills
- 7+ years of industry experience developing audio or multimedia software
- Strong full-stack skills: in-depth TypeScript/React and Python
- Experience with browser audio APIs (Web Audio, AudioWorklet) and real-time audio streaming
- Strong experience with WebSockets and real-time client–server communication
- Experience building and operating distributed systems
- Comfortable debugging production issues with observability tools (e.g. Sentry, Grafana)
- Proven technical leadership: mentoring engineers and driving technical direction across a team
- Strong testing practices (unit and integration) and experience on distributed teams
- Experience with FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, and PostgreSQL
- Experience with Infrastructure as code, particularly Terraform
- Experience with ASR/STT, or ML-driven products such as speech recognition or NLP, from model evaluation (e.g. word error rate) through rollout and production monitoring
- Experience with spec-driven development and AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g. Claude Code)
- Experience in HIPAA-compliant environments, especially FHIR and HL7
- Experience working at startups
- Experience with 3rd-party integrations such as Auth0
- Experience with relational and document based databases, as well as other large scale data storage paradigms
Benefits
- For US-based full-time roles: Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision & Life insurance
- For US-based full-time roles: HSA (with employer match), FSA, & DCFSA
- For US-based full-time roles: 401(k)
- For US-based full-time roles: 11 Paid Company Holidays
- For US-based full-time roles: Flexible PTO policy
- For US-based full-time roles: Annual company-wide offsite
- For US-based full-time roles: Periodic team offsites
- For US-based full-time roles: Annual equipment stipend
- Open to candidates located anywhere in the United States (remote work)
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