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Founding Applied ML Engineer

David AI
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 11/2/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/1/2025
Role And Responsibilities

As an Founding Applied ML Engineer at David AI you'll build cutting-edge speech and audio models, production inference systems and resilient pipelines that showcase what high-quality data can really do. You will:

  • Research, design, and implement solutions using advanced signal processing algorithms and bleeding edge ML models with application to speech and audio.
  • Develop production-grade inference algorithms, pipelines, and APIs with cross-functional teams that unlock key insights into our data for our customers.
  • Collaborating with our Operations team to gather useful training and evaluation datasets to improve the quality of our models.
  • Architect the systems that enable resilient, durable inference and evaluations.

Who We’re Looking For

  • 5 years of professional ML experience including DSP/ML audio algorithm development.
  • Demonstrated experience owning ML pipelines end to end, from POC to production.
  • Ability to translate research ideas or papers into high-quality Python code.
  • Proficiency in Python and common Deep Learning frameworks like PyTorch.
  • Ability to think broadly and cross-functionally about model quality in the context of user experience and the business value.
  • Full autonomy to drive the ML roadmap, influence technical direction, and prioritize research and infrastructure investments.
  • Experience working with a cloud technologies (eg. AWS or GCP) and developing machine learning models in a cloud environment.

Bonus points if you have

  • PhD or Masters in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Experience training generative AI models.
  • Expertise in audio signal processing both classical and machine learning techniques.
  • Led ML teams, setting direction and driving development cadence.

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.

Salary : $200,000 - $250,000

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