Transparent Search Group
Member of Technical Staff
About the role
Company: Confidential - Venture-backed voice AI infrastructure startup
Location: San Francisco, CA (Union Square office, 5 days per week)
Compensation: $160,000 - $220,000 + competitive equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: Not available
About the Company
A fast-growing startup building simulation, observability and self-improvement tooling for voice AI agents, used by major consumer, healthcare and financial brands and handling millions of calls a month.
The Role
As a Member of Technical Staff you will build systems that simulate, analyze and evaluate conversational AI agents across voice and multimodal, on resilient AWS infrastructure that handles millions of real-time conversations. This is a high-bar, full-ownership role on a tiny team, and it is customer-facing: you will work on-site with customers to build, sell and deploy the product.
What You Will Do
- Architect and develop simulation, analysis and evaluation systems for conversational AI.
- Build resilient, scalable AWS infrastructure (Lambda, EC2, WebSockets, SIP) for real-time conversations.
- Build algorithms and pipelines that surface insights, detect failure modes and keep agents safe and aligned.
- Own your work fully, across the stack.
- Work on-site with customers to deploy the product.
What You Bring
- 1+ years of experience
- Proficiency across the stack, especially databases, AWS and AI engineering
- Obsessive attention to detail and the ability to lead technical execution
- An exceptional signal: a strong bachelor's degree and/or experience at a top fast-growing startup
- Strong, personable communication for customer-facing work
- Ability to work in person in San Francisco 5 days a week
Nice to Have
- High-traffic features built at scale
- A highly optimized AI-assisted developer workflow
- Technical lead experience
Benefits
Health insurance, 401(k), gym membership, free lunch, and a Union Square office.
Tech Stack
Python, FastAPI, Supabase, Redis, AWS, WebSockets, CI/CD; ML and LLMs; LiveKit, Deepgram, Cartesia, ElevenLabs, Gemini; Sentry, PostHog, Grafana, Datadog
Your application is reviewed by a TSG search consultant.
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