Fully remote · Immediate joiners only, non-negotiable

NeuroDrift is a US-based AI voice and enterprise software company. We are hiring one senior, hands-on engineer to own a major real-time voice AI build end to end: architecture, production code, infra, and the technical relationship with the client.

You write code daily and set technical direction while doing it. We expect you productive in week one, not month three. If you haven't shipped AI in production recently, or you've drifted into diagrams and delegation, this isn't the one.

What you'll own

Architecture and hands-on development of a real-time voice AI platform, end to end
ASR, LLM, and TTS wired into production: orchestration, fallbacks, latency and cost tuning
Audio ingestion pipelines from telephony, live streams, and vendor APIs
Backend, data layer, infra, deployment, and observability. You operate what you build
Breaking product requirements into tasks, guiding a pod of 3 to 6, shipping weekly
Being the technical face of the project: architecture calls, sprint reviews, client meetings

What we need (4-8 years)





4-8 years building backend systems in production, with recent time leading
You still code daily: Python, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL
Real, recent AI in production: ASR, LLM APIs, RAG, evals. Integration work, not model training
Solid AWS. You deploy, debug, and operate your own services (Docker, CI/CD)
Led a pod of 3 to 6 without going hands-off

Strongly preferred

Voice and conversational AI: STT, TTS, real-time audio, LiveKit, WebRTC, SIP
Multi-provider model orchestration and failover
Latency work on streaming audio: barge-in, endpointing, turn-taking
How we work
Claude Code from day one. We are an AI-native team and expect you to use AI tooling to ship faster, not work around it
Small pods, weekly ships, direct client contact. No layers between you and the outcome

The setup

Fully remote
50 to 60 hours a week, startup pace
Primarily IST, with availability for US-time client meetings

📌 Senior AI Engineer (India)
🏢 Neurodrift
📍 India