Software Engineer - Voice AI (Inference Runtime)

📋 Description

• • As a Software Engineer - Voice AI (Inference Runtime) at BaseTen Inc., you will be the primary owner of the company's in-house inference stack for Voice AI models, playing a critical role in enabling cutting-edge voice technologies for customers across industries such as productivity, customer service, healthcare, and education.
• • Your day-to-day responsibilities include owning and leading Voice AI product areas end-to-end—from architecture and system design through implementation, rollout, and long-term production operations—designing, building, and operating real-time, large-scale, high-performance model serving systems for STT, TTS, and voice agent workloads with clear SLOs, driving cross-team collaboration with sister engineering teams to solve full-stack technical problems, and mentoring teammates through code reviews, design docs, and technical leadership.
• • You will join a small founding team focused on bringing state-of-the-art open-source voice models into production, collaborating closely with Forward Deployed Engineers, Model Performance Engineers, and the Core Product and Training Platform teams to push the boundaries of Voice AI and enable self-serve adoption through ergonomic APIs and SDKs.
• • This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on people’s daily lives by helping reshape industries through voice technology, while gaining deep expertise in ML infrastructure, real-time systems, and developer platform design at a fast-growing AI company backed by top-tier investors.