Frontend Software Engineer

Frontend Software Engineer

Company: David AI

Location: San Francisco, CA (in office 5 days per week)

Compensation: $175,000 - $225,000 + competitive equity

Employment Type: Full-time

Visa Sponsorship: Visa transfers (OPT, H-1B transfer)

About David AI

David AI is the first audio data research company, bringing an R&D approach to datasets with the same rigor AI labs bring to models. It believes audio is the gateway for bringing AI into the real world, and high-quality training data is the bottleneck.

David AI was founded in 2024 by former Scale AI engineers and operators, counts most FAANG companies and AI labs as customers, is backed by NVIDIA and top-tier investors, and has raised an $80M Series B.

The Role

David AI is hiring Frontend Software Engineers (2+ years) to build intuitive interfaces that help users make sense of the audio data used to train AI models. You will join a fast-moving team that ships to production daily.

What You Will Do

• Ship polished UI features that thousands of users use every day.
• Build performant interfaces on top of pipelines processing terabytes of audio data.
• Design interfaces that surface LLM- and DSP-based solutions for customers.
• Iterate quickly with researchers and operations to deploy data collection interfaces.
• Keep improving the product with modern frontend technologies.

What You Bring

• 2+ years of frontend engineering experience
• Strong Next.js, TypeScript and Tailwind CSS
• Experience building performant, data-heavy interfaces
• Ability to work in the San Francisco office 5 days a week

Tech Stack

Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Node.js, tRPC, PostgreSQL, AWS

REVENUE: 15.75% of first-year salary. Est. fee per hire $28K-$35K; 7 seat(s) = up to $221K if all filled.

TARGET COMPANIES (suggested): Scale AI, ElevenLabs, Deepgram, Descript, Figma, Vercel.

BEST-FIT CANDIDATE: 2+ yrs; Next.js/TS frontend; data-heavy UI perf; visa: transfers only; location: SF 5 days.