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Founding Software Engineer (Voice AI)Rise Technical • San Francisco, CA, United States
Founding Software Engineer (Voice AI)

Founding Software Engineer (Voice AI)

Rise Technical • San Francisco, CA, United States
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Base pay range

$150,000.00 / yr - $250,000.00 / yr

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Supporting the growth of Startups across the US!

Founding Software Engineer (Voice AI)

$150,000 - $250,000 + Strong Equity + Full Benefits

Looking for a role where you’ll have real ownership, direct impact, and the ability to shape both product and technical direction from day one? This is an opportunity to join a fast‑moving startup building category‑defining technology at the frontier of voice‑based automation.

The company is backed by top‑tier investors and already supports high‑volume customers with real production traffic. With demand growing rapidly, they’re hiring a Founding Engineer to help architect and scale core systems, improve conversational performance, and build new workflows that make deploying AI voice agents seamless.

You’ll sit at the intersection of infrastructure, product, and user experience, transforming complex, dynamic interactions into reliable, natural‑sounding conversations. Expect meaningful ownership over architecture, latency, reliability, and feature delivery across a platform that is expanding quickly.

You’ll collaborate closely with founders and customers, implementing features directly into live environments, iterating fast, and building the foundations that the wider engineering team will scale on. It’s a high‑autonomy environment ideal for someone who thrives in early‑stage velocity and wants to see their work in production immediately.

This is a chance to build at the edge of conversational AI and shape the technical trajectory of a company set up for rapid growth.

The Role

  • Develop, deploy, and iterate on voice and LLM‑driven systems for real customer use‑cases
  • Own architecture decisions supporting scalability, latency, and reliability
  • Work closely with enterprise customers to integrate workflows and deliver features they’ll adopt immediately
  • Evaluate model behaviour across real conversational traffic and drive improvements
  • Design systems that anticipate future growth and team expansion

The Person

  • Professional fullstack engineering experience with a top startup
  • Strong problem‑solving skills and comfort working through ambiguity at speed
  • Customer‑first mindset with interest in product behaviour and UX
  • Self‑motivated, independent, and eager to learn cutting‑edge AI tooling
  • If this sounds like you, make sure you apply today!
  • Seniority level

    Mid‑Senior level

    Employment type

    Full‑time

    Job function

    Software Development

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    Benefits

  • Medical insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Pension plan
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