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# Staff Software Engineer, Speech

- **Company:** Rad Ai
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Client Server Models, Databases, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Machine Learning, Software Tools, SQLAlchemy, Systems Integration, TypeScript, Speech Recognition, Web Applications, WebSocket, ReactJS, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, Claude Code, Grafana, Model Validation, Audio Streaming, Backend, Fastapi, Sentry, Health Level Seven International, Terraform
- **Published:** October 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/605b2fd9-d71e-463e-a546-21ba7356c4aa

## About the Role

* 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

Nice to Haves:

 * 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

Join our world-class team as we build and deploy AI solutions that empower physicians and transform patient care-making a meaningful impact on millions of lives. Driven by our mission, we prioritize transparency, inclusion, and close collaboration, bringing together exceptional people to revolutionize healthcare. If you're passionate about driving innovation and delivering impactful healthcare solutions, we'd love to hear from you!

## Description

We're seeking a Staff Software Engineer with audio or multimedia experience to serve as technical lead for Speech at Rad AI. You'll set technical direction, mentor engineers, and partner with Research Scientists, Infrastructure, and Product to build a responsive, high-performance Speech Platform for radiologists.

What You'll Be Doing:

 * 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