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.