About the role
We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer with 2+ years of experience to build the pipelines, systems, and infrastructure that power how leading AI labs process and make sense of audio data. You'll join a tight-knit engineering team at one of the fastest-growing AI startups — backed by NVIDIA, Meritech, and First Round Capital — working across multiple products to help scale a platform already serving most FAANG companies.
What will you be doing?
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Building scalable backend systems and data processing pipelines that connect and power all three of David AI's products
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Designing infrastructure that helps the platform scale efficiently as customer demand grows rapidly
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Working across the speaker platform, lab/researcher tools, and internal tooling products
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Collaborating closely with researchers to iterate on data collection infrastructure
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Architecting and maintaining APIs and services that thousands of users interact with daily
Key Requirements
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2+ years of backend engineering experience with proficiency in Python and TypeScript
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Experience at high-growth, VC-backed startups (not exclusively large/legacy companies)
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Strong CS degree from a top ~50 US program (or equivalent, e.g., University of Waterloo)
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Demonstrated ownership of zero-to-one projects with measurable business impact
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Experience building scalable systems and data processing pipelines in production
About David AI
David AI is the first audio data research company. We bring an R&D approach to data–developing datasets with the same rigor AI labs bring to models. Our mission is to bring AI into the real world, and we believe audio is the gateway. Speech is versatile, accessible, and human—it fits naturally into everyday life. As audio AI advances and new use cases emerge, high-quality training data is the bottleneck. This is where David AI comes in.
David AI was founded in 2024 by a team of former Scale AI engineers and operators. In less than a year, we’ve brought on most FAANG companies and AI labs as customers. We recently raised a $50M Series B from Meritech, NVIDIA, Jack Altman (Alt Capital), Amplify Partners, First Round Capital and other Tier 1 investors.
Our team is sharp, humble, ambitious, and tight-knit. We’re looking for the best research, engineering, product, and operations minds to join us on our mission to push the frontier of audio AI.
Required skills
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Job details
Salary
$175,000 - $225,000
Location
San Francisco, United States
Experience
2+ years
Funding
Total raised
$80.5M
Last stage
Series B
Investors
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.