Software Engineer (RTC focus)

About Fixie We’re a Seattle-based AI startup (with support for working remotely). We’ve raised $17M in seed funding. Our vision is simple: build artificial intelligences that can communicate as naturally as humans. We’re a small team of researchers and engineers with a deep focus in speech and real-time technologies. Our core model, Ultravox, is open-source. We also build a serving stack that’s optimized for very low-latency interactions. What you’ll do

• Unify the AI and Real-Time Communication (RTC) worlds by developing new techniques for running AI models in real time and streaming their outputs over WebRTC.

• Continuously work to reduce streaming latency across our service.

• Evaluate various model providers to find the best match of capabilities and performance.

• Build new product features for our consumer product. What we’re looking for

• An incredibly strong coder with a track record of contributions to RTC apps and systems.

• Highly skilled with WebRTC and deploying and debugging WebRTC-based applications.

• Experience with tools like WebRTC Internals, Audacity, FFMpeg, and Wireshark.

• Ability to roll up your sleeves and get things done.

• A great communicator and team player. No experience with AI or Large Language Models is expected; this is a great opportunity to dive in and learn this field! Benefits

• Generous equity package

• Unlimited PTO (take time when you need it)

• Top-of-market salary

• Great healthcare

• 401k with match Apply