Software Engineer - Rime Ai at Unusual Ventures | San Francisco, USA | Rezi

Software Engineer - Rime Ai at Unusual Ventures

Software Engineer - Rime Ai

Unusual Ventures · San Francisco, USA

1 months ago

Software Engineer - Rime Ai

Unusual Ventures · San Francisco, USA

a month ago
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About the Role

Rime is building a next-generation voice AI architecture using gRPC-first, heterogeneous model serving, and bidirectional streaming. This role requires engineers who can operate across layers of the stack, with a focus on clean interfaces and end-to-end systems understanding.

Responsibilities

  • Develop platform APIs including authentication, billing, and account management.
  • Implement feature work across the stack to support next-generation TTS and speech models.
  • Handle integration and migration tasks, such as token-based authentication and new billing providers.
  • Maintain and enhance the current TTS API stack.
  • Build real-time, 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.
  • Demonstrated systems-level thinking, understanding network, storage, and runtime layers.
  • Ability to build clean interfaces and design for loose coupling.
  • Comfortable navigating unfamiliar codebases and shipping independently.
  • Strong async written communication skills.

Skills

  • Backend fundamentals
  • C++
  • Rust
  • Go
  • Systems-level thinking
  • Clean interfaces
  • Loose coupling
  • Async written communication
  • gRPC
  • Bidirectional binary streaming protocols
  • Cloud infrastructure
  • ML systems

Location

  • SF / Bay Area

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • 5+ years of IC engineering experience

Benefits

  • Meaningful equity upside

About the Company

  • Rime is a foundation modeling company building voice AI for enterprises.
  • Our models are purpose-built for high-volume conversational deployments, engineered for accuracy, performance, and deployment flexibility.
  • We focus on building voice AI for human connection, using a proprietary corpus of studio-quality conversational speech.
  • Enterprises choose Rime for unparalleled naturalism and production-ready solutions.