Founding Lead Engineer

1 day ago

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India Audria Full time ₹ 2,00,00,000 - ₹ 2,50,00,000 per year

About Audria

Audria
is a voice-first ambient intelligence system designed to disappear behind your ear and work quietly in the background. It listens to real-world context and helps you proactively- without prompts or commands. All computation happens locally on your iPhone, ensuring your data never leaves your device. We're building a system that understands you naturally and acts when needed, not only when asked.

If this resonates, you'll find this to be the most meaningful engineering challenge of your life.

We're looking for someone who deeply believes in this idea, sees how it can redefine human-computer interaction, and is ready to build through uncertainty and complexity with a deep-tech mindset.

Compensation:

A highly competitive salary with a significant portion of the option pool.

What this role means:

You'll be the first lead engineer at Audria. You'll build things from the ground up, work alongside the current engineers, lead by example, and set high bars for technical quality and code reviews. The scope of your role will be wide and will include everything engineering and research. 

Experience

  • Minimum 3 years of deep, relevant engineering experience.
  • Proven ability to solve complex problems with patience and precision.
  • Urgency and agility to iterate fast based on real-world feedback.

Ideal background

  • Ex-Founder / CTO of an AI-first startup.
  • Ex-Founding Lead Engineer of an AI-first startup.
  • Deep specialization in relevant areas through PhD or equivalent industry work.

Expertise we value

  • Edge AI: optimizing small language models for specific hardware, understanding low-level and middleware layers.
  • Apple & iOS: from app architecture to CoreML/ANE-level optimization.
  • ASR systems: Bluetooth audio streaming, speech-to-text, speaker diarization, identification.
  • LLM internals: architecture, caching, attention optimization, memory management and efficient token streaming.
  • Advanced memory systems and context engineering.
  • Agentic AI systems and orchestration.
  • Building scalable, high-performance systems.
  • System security and privacy.
  • Leading and mentoring engineering teams.
  • Bonus: experience with low-power Bluetooth hardware and firmware.
  • Proven record of research and development that pushes technical boundaries.

Note: This is an on-site role in Noida. We work together from the office 5 days a week maintaining high productivity.

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