Software Engineer, SoundHound AI

• You have excellent general software engineering skills and discipline
• You have professional experience with both C++ and Python for complex systems
• You have exceptional attention to detail when solving hard technical problems, including design, refactoring, optimization, and debugging
• You are thoughtful in decision making, especially in understanding business priorities, balancing trade-offs, and managing ambiguities
• You have advanced expertise with algorithms and data structures

Desirable

• SoundHound’s Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) team is currently developing and starting to roll out a state-of-the-art speech recognition system and model architecture improve accuracy, reduce complexity and cost, and enable new dynamic features to make the system more scalable and easily customized
• This project (known as Polaris) requires many cross-functional disciplines and close collaboration to be successful
• Our team (ASR Systems) is responsible for the most intensive software engineering tasks relating to developing Polaris and supporting our existing speech recognition system in production
• This particular role is for our Inference Squad, which is a highly specialized group primarily responsible for high-performance inference and model integration
• Members of the Inference Squad provide the necessary expertise to ensure alignment between the systems-focused engineers and the ASR Modeling team who focus on research and model development
• Enhance the core of our proprietary inference server (Snowcat) to support Polaris rollout and integration with various products
• Help support our existing production ASR system until we successfully replace everything with Polaris, including targeted enhancements, incident investigations, and technical analysis as needed