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With a mission to amplify human intelligence, Plaud captures, structures, and compounds the intelligence generated in conversations - so humans can think better, decide faster, and execute with clarity.\nPlaud Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated, San Francisco-based company. With GDPR, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and EN 18031 compliance, Plaud is committed to the highest standards of data security and privacy protection.\nTo learn more about Plaud, please visit https://www.plaud.ai and follow along on Instagram, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.\nWhy You Should Join Us\nPlaud is building the next generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture, extract, and utilize intelligence from what people say, hear, see, and think.\nPlaud is a bootstrapped, skyrocketing, profitable company with a $300M revenue run rate achieved in just three years.\n\nDefine the next-gen paradigm for human-AI interaction.\n\nGain exposure to cutting-edge AI for Pro tools and play a direct role in our global expansion.\n\nWork with passionate teammates who value innovation, collaboration, and customer success.\n\nGrow your career in a culture that champions continuous learning and fast career development.\n\nMarket-competitive compensation, global exposure, and a vibrant, creativity-fueled work atmosphere.\n\nThis senior IC role has no fixed team. 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Use it to guide architecture decisions across the org with Gene and the eng leads.\n\nMentor senior engineers in the US and Asia, and help grow the next generation of tech leads.\n\nExplore and drive AI-native engineering practice, showing teams how AI-assisted development speeds up real work.\n\nSkills, qualifications and experience we look for\n10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years at Staff level or equivalent scope.\n\nDeep expertise in more than one area, such as backend distributed systems, mobile or client, data pipelines, or ML/LLM systems, and the ability to ramp up quickly on unfamiliar code.\n\nProven track record leading technical work across teams, with design docs and migrations that other engineers adopted.\n\nStrong in Go or Python, plus at least one client stack (iOS, Android, React or Electron), with cloud-native experience (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes).\n\nExperience shipping LLM features in production, including retrieval, prompt pipelines, evals, and managing latency and cost.\n\nExcellent written communication and comfort working across time zones and cultures.\n\nLow ego and high ownership: happy to make the team look good and move on.\n\nRecognized technical influence through open-source contributions, highly starred GitHub repositories, conference talks or technical publications is a plus.\n\nRoutinely uses AI tools in daily work and can demo usage from the last two weeks during the interview.\n\nWhat we offer\nMeaningful Ownership An Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) that gives a real stake in Plaud’s long-term success.\n\nHigh-Impact Environment Work in a fast-moving, product-driven environment where your ideas directly shape the future of AI productivity.\n\nCutting-Edge AI Tools for Productivity Access to best-in-class AI tools, including Gemini, Claude Code, and other frontier AI systems to maximize engineering and execution efficiency.\n\nBest-in-Class Equipment Choice of top-spec laptops, high-performance workstation setups, and cutting-edge Plaud devices for all new hires.\n\nTeam & Culture Annual company offsites, team events, and a culture that values craftsmanship, ownership, and velocity.\n\n Disclaimer: Plaud is and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. 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