Staff Software Engineer, Speech - AI for Radiology

Rad AI; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision & Life

HSA with employer match

401(k)

Paid holidays

Flexible PTO

Equipment stipend

Annual company offsite

Job summary

Rad AI is seeking a Staff Software Engineer with audio or multimedia expertise to lead our Speech platform. You will set technical direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Research Scientists, Infrastructure, and Product to deliver a responsive, high-performance speech system for radiologists.

You will drive architectural decisions, build real-time audio capture and streaming in a React/TypeScript app, and design backend services in Python at scale.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of industry experience developing audio or multimedia software.
• Strong full-stack skills: 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 (e.g. Sentry, Grafana).
• Proven technical leadership: mentoring engineers and driving technical direction across a team.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical lead for the Speech function: set direction and mentor engineers.
• Partner with Research Scientists to bring speech models from evaluation to production.
• Build and evolve real-time audio capture and streaming in the React/TypeScript web app.
• Design and operate the distributed Python backend services powering the speech platform.
• Contribute to infrastructure behind speech systems.
• Debug and improve production reliability using observability tools.
• Collaborate with Product, UX and Customer Success to ship scalable features in a HIPAA-compliant environment.

Skills

TypeScript/React

Python

Web Audio API

AudioWorklet

Real-time streaming

WebSockets

Distributed systems

Observability tools

Technical leadership

Tools

FastAPI

SQLAlchemy

PostgreSQL

Terraform

Job description

Rad AI is seeking a Staff Software Engineer with audio or multimedia expertise to lead our Speech platform. You will set technical direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Research Scientists, Infrastructure, and Product to deliver a responsive, high-performance speech system for radiologists.

You will drive architectural decisions, build real-time audio capture and streaming in a React/TypeScript app, and design backend services in Python at scale.