Head of Engineering

About David AI

Data for audio AI

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Job description:

### **About our Engineering team**

At David AI, our engineers build the pipelines, platforms, and models that transform raw audio into high-signal data for leading AI labs and enterprises. We're a tight-knit team of product engineers, infrastructure specialists, and machine learning experts focused on building the world’s first audio data research company.

We move fast, own our work end-to-end, and ship to production daily. Our team designs real-time pipelines handling terabytes of speech data and deploys cutting-edge generative audio models.

### **About this role**

As **Head of Engineering,** you'll be the technical backbone for our engineering team, leading execution across product, infrastructure, and AI systems. Partnering closely with the CTO, you'll co-develop the long-term technical vision and architecture, then translate it into a clear roadmap and operating cadence. You'll ensure delivery quality and nurture a collaborative, high-velocity engineering culture. This is a strategic role with broad autonomy where you'll shape how we build from day one.

### **In this role, you will**

* **Lead the design and development of core tools** that help users make sense of audio data for model training, working closely with researchers to continually improve how we collect data.
* **Hire, structure, and mentor the engineering team** while setting and upholding high performance standards.
* **Oversee the delivery of full-stack features** that thousands of users interact with daily.\
**Build scalable data processing pipelines** to extract actionable insights from terabytes of audio data every day.
* **Rapidly iterate on research hypotheses** in partnership with the Head of Research and Head of Operations - deploying interfaces to collect new data efficiently.

### **Your background looks like**

* 3+ years of engineering management experience.
* Experience leading technical organizations through rapid growth phases at high-growth startups or scale-ups.
* Strong background in distributed systems, real-time data processing, or machine learning infrastructure.
* A high degree of comfort digging into systems with deep technology stacks.
* A passion for problem solving and providing technical leadership to peers.

### **Bonus points if you**

* Are a former founder.

### **Some technologies we work with**

* Next.js, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, Node.js, tRPC, PostgreSQL, AWS, [Trigger.dev](http://Trigger.dev), WebRTC, FFmpeg.

### **Compensation and benefits**

* Rapid career growth at one of the fastest growing Series A companies, within a new and booming industry.
* Competitive salary and equity package.
* Flexible PTO policy.
* Top-notch health, dental, and vision coverage with 100% company reimbursement for most plans.
* Paid lunch and dinner in the office, every day through DoorDash.
* 401k access.