Head of Engineering

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Are a former founder.

• Next.js, Type Script, Tailwind
  
  CSS, Node.js, tRPC, Postgre
  
  SQL, AWS, Trigger.dev, WebRTC, FFmpeg.

• 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 Door Dash.
• 401k access.