Speech Platform Tech Lead – Real-Time Audio (HIPAA)

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision & Life

HSA with employer match

401(k)

Paid holidays

Flexible PTO

Annual offsite

Equipment stipend

Remote-friendly

Job summary

Rad AI is seeking a Staff Software Engineer with expertise in audio and multimedia to lead the Speech platform. You will drive technical direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate with researchers, infrastructure, and product teams to deliver a high-performance radiology speech solution.

Responsibilities include building real-time audio capture, streaming in a React/TypeScript app, and designing distributed Python services, all while maintaining HIPAA-compliant operations and strong

Qualifications

• 7+ years of industry experience developing audio or multimedia software.
• Strong full-stack skills: in-depth TypeScript/React and Python.
• Experience with browser audio APIs (Web Audio, AudioWorklet) and real-time audio streaming.
• Strong experience with WebSockets and real-time client–server communication.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems.
• Comfortable debugging production issues with observability tools (Sentry, Grafana).
• Proven technical leadership: mentoring engineers and driving technical direction across a team.
• Strong testing practices (unit and integration) and experience on distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical lead for the Speech function: set direction, drive architecture decisions, and mentor engineers
• Partner with Research Scientists to take speech models from evaluation to production
• Build and evolve real-time audio capture and streaming in our React/TypeScript web application
• Design and operate the distributed Python backend services that power our speech platform
• Contribute to the infrastructure behind our speech systems
• Debug and improve production reliability and performance using modern observability tools
• Work with Product, UX, and Customer Success to ship features in a high-scale, HIPAA-compliant environment

Skills

Audio/multimedia

Full-stack React/TypeScript

Python

Web Audio API

Audio streaming

WebSockets

Distributed systems

Observability tools

Technical leadership

Testing (unit/integration)

Tools

Sentry

Grafana

Job description

Rad AI is seeking a Staff Software Engineer with expertise in audio and multimedia to lead the Speech platform. You will drive technical direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate with researchers, infrastructure, and product teams to deliver a high-performance radiology speech solution.

Responsibilities include building real-time audio capture, streaming in a React/TypeScript app, and designing distributed Python services, all while maintaining HIPAA-compliant operations and strong