Software Engineer

About the Company

Rime is a foundation modeling company that builds voice AI for enterprises running customer experiences at scale. Our models are purpose-built for high-volume conversational deployments, engineered for the accuracy, performance, and deployment flexibility that production environments actually demand.

Responsibilities

• Develop platform APIs including authentication, billing, and account management
• Execute feature work across the stack to support next-generation TTS and speech models
• Handle integration and migration work such as token-based authentication and new billing providers
• Maintain and harden the current TTS API stack
• Build realtime, low-latency, horizontally scalable streaming speech infrastructure

Requirements

• 5+ years of IC engineering experience with strong backend fundamentals
• Proficiency in at least one low-level language: C++, Rust, or Go
• Systems-level thinking regarding network, storage, and runtime layers
• Ability to build clean interfaces and design for loose coupling
• Comfort navigating unfamiliar codebases and shipping independently
• Strong asynchronous written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating 3rd party APIs (payments, monitoring, CRMs)
• Experience with gRPC or bidirectional binary streaming protocols
• Experience with multilingual monorepos
• Experience with cloud infrastructure
• Experience at a small startup with broad scope
• Comfort working within ML systems