About Plaud Inc. Plaud is building the world's most trusted AI work companion for professionals to elevate productivity and performance through note-taking solutions, loved by over 1,500,000 users worldwide since 2023. With a mission to amplify human intelligence, Plaud is building the next-generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture, extract, and utilize what you say, hear, see, and think.

Plaud Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated, San Francisco-based company pushing the boundary of human–AI intelligence through a hardware–software combination. With SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO27001, ISO27701, and EN18031 compliance, Plaud is committed to the highest standards of data security and privacy protection.

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Why You Should Join Us Plaud is building the next generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture, extract, and utilize intelligence from what people say, hear, see, and think.

• Plaud is a bootstrapped, skyrocketing, profitable company with a $250M revenue run rate achieved in just three years.
• Define the next-gen paradigm for human-AI interaction.
• Gain exposure to cutting-edge AI for Pro tools and play a direct role in our global expansion.
• Work with passionate teammates who value innovation, collaboration, and customer success.
• Grow your career in a culture that champions continuous learning and fast career development.
• Market-competitive compensation, global exposure, and a vibrant, creativity-fueled work atmosphere.

What You Will Do

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable business-facing APIs to support Plaud Teams, Enterprise, and D2C initiatives.
• Build modular, service-oriented backend components with clear domain boundaries and production ownership.
• Collaborate closely with US Product and Engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Partner with China engineering teams through documented API contracts, code reviews, and structured technical discussions.
• Ensure system reliability, performance, and security, leveraging AI coding tools to improve development efficiency and code quality.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of speech algorithm training experience, with experience in fine-tuning and training SpeechLLM.
• Experience processing hundreds of thousands of hours of speech data and training speech recognition models.
• Familiar with SpeechLLM, speech SSL training, with from-scratch training experience for models similar to StepAudio, Qwen3omni, etc. Individual contributors responsible for model training within teams like the StepAudio speech group are preferred.
• Papers in top speech conferences like Interspeech, ICASSP, or patents related to speech.

What we offer

• Founding Team: Opportunity to join the founding team of this new initiative, with meaningful ownership and impact on a fast-growing startup.
• Competitive Compensation: $150K-$240K base salary+performance bonus+Equity.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Top-tier healthcare for employees and dependents, including dental and vision, and a generous employer subsidy.
• Retirement Planning: 401(k) plan for full time employees with company matching.
• Paid Time Off: Unlimited PTO, plus 13 paid holidays.
• New Parent Leave: 12 weeks of paid time off to spend time with your new family, regardless of gender.

Plaud is and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.