{"id":1636129,"url":"https://alion.io/job/quippy-realtime-voice-engineer","title":"Realtime Voice Engineer","company":{"id":3780178,"name":"Quippy","domain":"quippyapp.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/quippy","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":93000,"max_usd":226000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":10228},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"WebRTC","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-28T16:33:50Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-28","last_verified_at":"2026-10-07T01:04:28Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":8,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":8},"description":"Quippy (YC F26) is a daily practice room for the conversations people dread. You pick a real situation, like disagreeing with your manager or starting a conversation at a party, rehearse it with a realistic scene partner by voice or text, and get honest, line-by-line feedback on what landed. The app is live on the App Store.\nVoice is the part of Quippy people remember, and the hardest part to build. You will own the realtime path from someone's microphone to a scene partner's reply and back, and make it quick enough that people forget they are practicing.\nWhat you will work on\nOwn the realtime voice pipeline across the iOS app and the backend\n\nCut latency, handle interruptions and turn-taking, and make audio sound right on every device\n\nMeasure conversation quality and fix what makes it feel robotic\n\nBuild the tools that let us test voice changes before they reach users\n\nYou might be a fit if\nYou have shipped realtime audio, voice, WebRTC, or streaming systems\n\nYou care about milliseconds and can find where they go\n\nYou can debug across the network, the phone, and the server\n\nYou want to build something people talk to every day\n\nWhy join now\nA founding role with shares in the company\n\nYou work directly with Jonathan, the founder\n\nWhat you build reaches real users within days\n\nA small team in San Francisco, backed by Y Combinator\n\nFull-time. San Francisco preferred, remote work possible. Competitive salary and stock in the company.","description_format":"text","description_chars":1454,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-01T21:37:22Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":82,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.868,"p_room":0.945,"age_days":7,"expected_fill_days":21,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-06T05:45:30Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/quippy-realtime-voice-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/quippy-realtime-voice-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-07T01:43:45Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2819,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":2181,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-08T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3780178},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3780178"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fquippy-realtime-voice-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fquippy-realtime-voice-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fquippy-realtime-voice-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/quippy-realtime-voice-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fquippy-realtime-voice-engineer"}]}