Senior Backend Engineer at David AI

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. As a Senior Backend Engineer at David AI, you’ll work across product surfaces to design clean APIs, build scalable services, and keep our systems performant under the weight of terabytes of audio data. Design, build, and maintain production-grade backend services that power everything from data collection to customer-facing insights. Own the architecture and performance of distributed systems that ingest, transform, and serve audio data at scale. Define and evolve internal APIs and service boundaries to support a growing set of ML and product features. Build resilient, observable, and easy-to-debug systems with strong performance characteristics. Collaborate with product, opera