Remote-First Ambient Audio Engineer for Healthcare AI

DrFirst; France; Remote; EUR 125,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401K with company match

Discretionary bonus

HSA contributions up to $1000 family /

PTO 18 days + holidays

Education funds up to $1500 annually

Job summary

DrFirst is seeking an Ambient Listening Engineer to join our Provider Solutions, eRx Retail team. You will build ambient AI to capture, transcribe, and structure spoken conversations from clinical interactions, enabling seamless data flow to downstream systems.

Join a small, fast-moving team focused on real-time audio, NLP, and ML models. The role emphasizes hands-on building, collaboration with clinical stakeholders, and privacy-conscious design in a remote-first setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with end-to-end production systems.
• Hands-on experience with real-time or streaming audio pipelines (WebRTC, gRPC, Kafka).
• Experience with speech-to-text, NLP, or applied ML models, via APIs or fine-tuning.
• Strong backend skills in Python, Go, or Java; comfortable across the stack.
• Preference for hands-on prototyping and cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience in small, fast-moving teams with overlapping roles.
• Familiarity with cloud infra (AWS/Azure/GCP) and Docker/Kubernetes.
• Good written and verbal communication with clinical or non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain real-time ambient audio capture and streaming pipelines.
• Integrate ASR, diarization, and noise suppression to improve accuracy.
• Build services to convert audio into structured clinical data and notes.
• Collaborate with product and clinical informatics to prototype solutions quickly.
• Own metrics for reliability, latency, and accuracy of the listening pipeline.
• Implement privacy and HIPAA-compliant handling of audio data.
• Evaluate third-party and open-source models to accelerate roadmaps.
• Participate in code reviews and on-call rotations.

Skills

Real-time audio

Backend engineering

Speech-to-text

NLP

ML models

Python

Go

Java

Cloud infra

Team collaboration

Tools

WebRTC

gRPC

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Whisper

Deepgram

Azure Speech

Job description

DrFirst is seeking an Ambient Listening Engineer to join our Provider Solutions, eRx Retail team. You will build ambient AI to capture, transcribe, and structure spoken conversations from clinical interactions, enabling seamless data flow to downstream systems.

Join a small, fast-moving team focused on real-time audio, NLP, and ML models. The role emphasizes hands-on building, collaboration with clinical stakeholders, and privacy-conscious design in a remote-first setting.