Frontend Software Engineer

David AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Top-notch health, dental, and vision —

FSA & HSA access

401k access

Meals 2x daily through DoorDash

Barry's classes

Job summary

David AI is hiring a Frontend Engineer in San Francisco to build intuitive interfaces for large-scale audio data platforms. You will work with researchers to iterate on data collection and model training interfaces, shipping features used by thousands of users daily.

The role emphasizes fast delivery, end-to-end ownership, and collaboration across research, engineering, and operations to push the frontier of audio AI.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of frontend engineering experience.
• Strong frontend fundamentals with ability to create rapid prototypes.
• Track record of delivering engineering solutions that add value to customers.
• Experience in a high-pace environment with detail-oriented execution.
• Ability to ship polished, production-grade interfaces.
• AI/ML or audio experience not required but you should be excited to learn.

Responsibilities

• Ship polished, intuitive UI features that thousands of users will interact with daily.
• Build performant, responsive interfaces on top of data processing pipelines that derive insights from terabytes of audio data.
• Design interfaces that surface LLM and DSP based solutions for customers.
• Iterate rapidly with researchers and Operations to deploy interfaces to collect new data.
• Stay up-to-date with cutting edge frontend technologies and frameworks.

Skills

Frontend engineering

Prototype development

UI development

Performance optimization

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Next.js

TypeScript

TailwindCSS

Node.js

tRPC

PostgreSQL

AWS

Job description

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.

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.

About This Role

As a Frontend Engineer at David AI, you'll build cutting-edge, intuitive interfaces that help our users make sense of the audio data they'll use to train their models, working closely with researchers to consistently iterate on how to best collect our data.

In this role, you will

• Ship polished, intuitive UI features that thousands of users will interact with daily.
• Build performant, responsive interfaces on top of the data processing pipelines that derive actionable insights from terabytes of audio data every day.
• Design and build interfaces that surface LLM and DSP based solutions, increasing our customers' understanding of nuanced features across our datasets.
• Iterate rapidly on our research hypotheses by working closely with researchers and our Operations team to deploy interfaces to collect new data.
• Stay up-to-date with cutting edge technologies and frameworks to apply to our current product offering across frontend engineering, design systems, and user experience.

Your background looks like

• 2+ years of frontend engineering experience.
• Strong frontend fundamentals with experience creating rapid prototypes, as well as building interfaces that scaled to many users.
• A proven track record of delivering engineering solutions that contributed value to customers.
• Experience working in a high-pace environment where constant progress was enabled by detail-oriented execution.
• Emphasis on building intuitive products and experiences that resonate with users, with a track record of shipping highly polished, production-grade interfaces.
• AI/ML or audio experience is not required but you should be excited to learn.

Bonus points if you have

• Educational or professional experience with digital signal processing and a deep understanding of speech.
• Experience building interfaces for ML-powered or data-heavy products in a production environment.
• Led (managed or tech-led) engineering teams in high-growth environments.

Some technologies we work with

• Next.js, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, Node.js, tRPC, PostgreSQL, AWS.

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO.
• Top-notch health, dental, and vision coverage with 100% coverage for most plans.
• FSA & HSA access.
• 401k access.
• Meals 2x daily through DoorDash + snacks and beverages available at the office.
• Unlimited company-sponsored Barry's classes.

Compensation Range: $165K - $225K