Founding Audio AI Research Engineer

About David AI

David AI is the first audio data research company . We bring an R&D approach to data–developing datasets with the same rigor AI labs bring to models.

Our mission is to bring AI into the real world , and we believe audio is the gateway. Speech is versatile, accessible, and human —it fits naturally into everyday life. To unlock the full potential of AI, models need more—and better—audio data. That's where David AI comes in.

David AI was founded in 2024 by a team of former Scale AI engineers and operators. In less than a year, we've brought on most FAANG companies and AI labs as customers, and raised $5M from First Round Capital, Y Combinator, SV Angel, and more.

Our team is sharp, humble, ambitious, and tight-knit–we love spending time together. We're looking for the best research, engineering, product and operations minds to join us on our mission to revolutionize audio AI.

Role and responsibilities

As a Founding Audio Research Scientist , you will drive our research roadmap—shaping strategy, leading model development, and working closely with customers and internal teams to deliver high-quality data. You will :

• Work with our customers across leading research organizations to build out our data roadmap that will enable future speech models and applications.
• Collaborate with our product and operations team to design and conduct experiments that collect high-quality audio data to fuel your cutting-edge research.
• Train, evaluate, and deploy novel audio models to extract key features that enrich our data.
• Develop tools and comprehensive benchmarks to evaluate the audio and speech quality across our datasets.
• Set strategic and technical direction around our R&D roadmap based on latest research.

Who we're looking for

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Compensation and benefits

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