Job Description
About Aldea
Aldea is a multi-modal foundational AI company reimagining the scaling laws of intelligence. We believe today's architectures create unnecessary bottlenecks for the evolution of software. Our mission is to build the next generation of foundational models that power a more expressive, contextual, and intelligent human–machine interface.
About the Role
Aldea is looking for a highly technical API Engineering Lead to own and drive our API roadmap. You’ll lead architecture, implementation, and performance improvements across our real-time and batch speech APIs. This role sits at the intersection of backend engineering, real-time streaming, and ML productionization.
What You’ll Do
Own end-to-end design, architecture, and evolution of Aldea’s customer facing and backend APIs
Architect for Scale & Speed: Design and evolve the global control plane for Aldea’s real-time (WebSocket/gRPC) and batch APIs.
Productionize ML at the Edge: Build the high-throughput inference layer that wraps our speech models. Optimize for millisecond-level cold starts and efficient GPU utilization.
Reliability & Observability: implement distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry) and define strict SLOs for streaming stability (e.g., jitter, connection drop rates).
Security by Design: Lead the implementation of enterprise-grade security (API keys, OAuth2, rate limiting) and compliance controls (SOC2, data retention) for sensitive audio data.
Define API standards, versioning, authentication, usage metering
Partner with Research, Product, and Infra to deliver new capabilities
Mentor engineers and set best practices for API engineering
What You Bring
5–8 years backend/systems engineering experience
Strong experience building and running production APIs
Deep Proficiency in Go or Rust. (Python is great for modeling, but our hot path needs systems-level performance).
Experience with streaming systems (websockets, gRPC, real-time audio/video)
ML Infrastructure Experience: Familiarity with model serving (Triton, TorchServe, Ray) or orchestrating GPU workloads on Kubernetes/AWS.
Deep understanding of distributed systems, performance tuning, async I/O
Cloud Native Fluency: Hands-on experience with AWS (EKS/ECS, Lambda, ElastiCache).
Bonus
Background in speech, audio, DSP, or ML inference pipelines
Experience building SDKs, developer tooling, or API billing/usage systems
Early-stage startup experience
Success Looks Like
APIs that are fast, reliable, and developer-friendly
Seamless integration of new models and features
Strong engineering foundation that supports rapid iteration
<300ms End-to-End Latency (P95) for voice-to-voice interactions.
A "One-Line Integration" experience that developers rave about.
Compensation & Benefits
Competitive base salary
Equity participation
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
Flexible paid time off
Aldea is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture that celebrates authenticity to win as one. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, ****** orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, citizenship or immigration status, or any other legally protected characteristics.
Aldea uses E-Verify to confirm employment eligibility in compliance with federal law. For more information please visit: https://www.e-verify.gov.
Please note: We do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies and will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Aldea is a multi-modal foundational AI company reimagining the scaling laws of intelligence. We believe today's architectures create unnecessary bottlenecks for the evolution of software. Our mission is to build the next generation of foundational models that power a more expressive, contextual, and intelligent human–machine interface.
About the Role
Aldea is looking for a highly technical API Engineering Lead to own and drive our API roadmap. You’ll lead architecture, implementation, and performance improvements across our real-time and batch speech APIs. This role sits at the intersection of backend engineering, real-time streaming, and ML productionization.
What You’ll Do
Own end-to-end design, architecture, and evolution of Aldea’s customer facing and backend APIs
Architect for Scale & Speed: Design and evolve the global control plane for Aldea’s real-time (WebSocket/gRPC) and batch APIs.
Productionize ML at the Edge: Build the high-throughput inference layer that wraps our speech models. Optimize for millisecond-level cold starts and efficient GPU utilization.
Reliability & Observability: implement distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry) and define strict SLOs for streaming stability (e.g., jitter, connection drop rates).
Security by Design: Lead the implementation of enterprise-grade security (API keys, OAuth2, rate limiting) and compliance controls (SOC2, data retention) for sensitive audio data.
Define API standards, versioning, authentication, usage metering
Partner with Research, Product, and Infra to deliver new capabilities
Mentor engineers and set best practices for API engineering
What You Bring
5–8 years backend/systems engineering experience
Strong experience building and running production APIs
Deep Proficiency in Go or Rust. (Python is great for modeling, but our hot path needs systems-level performance).
Experience with streaming systems (websockets, gRPC, real-time audio/video)
ML Infrastructure Experience: Familiarity with model serving (Triton, TorchServe, Ray) or orchestrating GPU workloads on Kubernetes/AWS.
Deep understanding of distributed systems, performance tuning, async I/O
Cloud Native Fluency: Hands-on experience with AWS (EKS/ECS, Lambda, ElastiCache).
Bonus
Background in speech, audio, DSP, or ML inference pipelines
Experience building SDKs, developer tooling, or API billing/usage systems
Early-stage startup experience
Success Looks Like
APIs that are fast, reliable, and developer-friendly
Seamless integration of new models and features
Strong engineering foundation that supports rapid iteration
<300ms End-to-End Latency (P95) for voice-to-voice interactions.
A "One-Line Integration" experience that developers rave about.
Compensation & Benefits
Competitive base salary
Equity participation
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
Flexible paid time off
Aldea is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture that celebrates authenticity to win as one. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, ****** orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, citizenship or immigration status, or any other legally protected characteristics.
Aldea uses E-Verify to confirm employment eligibility in compliance with federal law. For more information please visit: https://www.e-verify.gov.
Please note: We do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies and will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The API Engineering Lead- post position is now open for candidates interested in the IT Engineer & Developer Jobs sector. This role in San Francisco offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in IT Engineer & Developer Jobs is a plus.
