Software Engineer Voice AI, Cloud & Real-Time Pipelines
Overview
Own cloud-side systems for real-time humanoid robot deployments at scale. Ship features that enable robots to listen, speak, and operate naturally with low latency and robust pipelines. Collaborate with on-site teams to validate features on real robots in the field. Work with Python backend, edge deployments, and production speech and language models to improve conversation quality.
What You'll Do10
- 1Build cloud-side systems for real-time voice AI with low latency
- 2Design and ship improvements to knowledge storage and dialog turn-taking logic
- 3Iterate on software deployed to customer robots in field environments
- 4Improve voice pipelines using state-of-the-art speech models
- 5Deploy and operate services at edge locations across GCP and AWS
- 6Reduce interaction latency to enhance natural human-robot conversations
- 7Maintain cloud backend code in Python 3.14 and support UDP streaming
- 8Instrument systems with metrics and monitoring for observability
- 9Adopt CI/CD practices including linting, testing, packaging, and automation
- 10Collaborate with robotics hardware teams for integration and testing
Requirements10
- 13+ years of professional software engineering delivering cloud-based features
- 2Experience with Voice AI development and pipelines
- 3Experience with latency-sensitive real-time media pipelines
- 4Experience building knowledge storage and retrieval components and dialog turn-taking logic
- 5Experience deploying software to customer-facing robots or devices in real-world environments
- 6Strong cloud development background with AWS or GCP and Kubernetes-based production deployments
- 7Proficiency in Python for backend services; familiarity with UDP-based streaming protocols
- 8Experience deploying and operating services at edge locations
- 9Observability-focused mindset with metrics and monitoring tools (Prometheus/Grafana, distributed tracing)
- 10Strong CI/CD practices including linting, testing, packaging, and automation
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