Senior Software Engineer - Real Time Audio
Company: Qualitate
Location: New York City
Salary: $160k - $270k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-09-23
About this role
## About Qualitate
Qualitate is building the AI-native continuous intelligence platform for enterprises, investment firms, and asset managers. We automate the entire primary research workflow, from study design and expert recruitment through AI-moderated interviews and insight synthesis, replacing weeks of manual research with high output signal in hours.
Primary research remains slow and transactional for everyone involved. Investment and corporate strategy teams spend hundreds of hours coordinating intermediaries, scheduling calls, and synthesizing fragmented insights. Experts face repetitive outreach, screener calls, schedule wrangling, and one-off engagements that offer them little control or lasting value.
Qualitate transforms this experience with an AI-native expert network platform that gives participants the flexibility to contribute on their own time while enabling research at unprecedented scale. Qualitate’s AI Moderator conducts thousands of conversations with experts each month, capturing forward-looking purchasing plans, competitive displacement, and real-time ROI signals. Our continuous intelligence platform then turns these conversations into quantified, time-series outputs tracking over 10,000 public and private companies, queryable instantly in natural language. Our customers include some of the world's largest enterprises, hedge funds, PE firms, credit investors, and venture capital firms.
## The Role
Qualitate’s AI Moderator runs live, voice-based interviews with thousands of experts every month. The core of that experience is real time: audio streaming in, speech-to-text, and conversational turn-taking, all delivered reliably to users around the world.
As a senior engineer focused on real-time and audio systems, you’ll own that live layer end to end. You’ll improve upon and ship the scalable, low-latency voice pipeline, including capture, streaming, speech recognition, model orchestration and synthesis. You’ll also iterate on the WebSocket ...