Head of Engineering

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 Head of Engineering, you'll be the technical backbone for our engineering team, leading execution across product, infrastructure, and AI systems. Partnering closely with the CTO, you'll co-develop the long-term technical vision and architecture, then translate it into a clear roadmap and operating cadence. You'll ensure delivery quality and nurture a collaborative, high-velocity engineering culture. This is a strategic role with broad autonomy where you'll shape how we build from day one.

In this role, you will

• Lead the design and development of core tools that help users make sense of audio data for model training, working closely with researchers to continually improve how we collect data.
• Hire, structure, and mentor the engineering team while setting and upholding high performance standards.
• Oversee the delivery of full-stack features that thousands of users interact with daily.\ Build scalable data processing pipelines to extract actionable insights from terabytes of audio data every day.
• Rapidly iterate on research hypotheses in partnership with the Head of Research and Head of Operations - deploying interfaces to collect new data efficiently.
  
  

Your background looks like

• 3+ years of engineering management experience.
• Experience leading technical organizations through rapid growth phases at high-growth startups or scale-ups.
• Strong background in distributed systems, real-time data processing, or machine learning infrastructure.
• A high degree of comfort digging into systems with deep technology stacks.
• A passion for problem solving and providing technical leadership to peers.
  
  

Bonus points if you

• Are a former founder.
  
  

Some technologies we work with

• Next.js, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, Node.js, tRPC, PostgreSQL, AWS, Trigger.dev, WebRTC, FFmpeg.
  
  

Compensation And Benefits

• Rapid career growth at one of the fastest growing Series A companies, within a new and booming industry.
• Competitive salary and equity package.
• Flexible PTO policy.
• Top-notch health, dental, and vision coverage with 100% company reimbursement for most plans.
• Paid lunch and dinner in the office, every day through DoorDash.
• 401k access.