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Hark · San Jose · On-site

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About Hark

At Hark, we are building the most advanced personal intelligence in the world.

About the role

Hark is an artificial intelligence company building advanced, personalized intelligence. One that is proactive, multimodal, and capable of interacting with the world through speech, text, vision, and persistent memory.

What they're looking for

  • Possess 5+ years of expertise in infrastructure, systems, or platform engineering, including a minimum of 2 years dedicated to real-time or low-latency environments
  • Demonstrated success in deploying and managing large-scale inference frameworks or streaming infrastructure at scale
  • Showcase advanced proficiency in at least one systems-level or infrastructure-centric programming language
  • Maintain a deep technical understanding of networking fundamentals critical to real-time audio and low-latency inference, such as WebRTC or gRPC
  • Proven experience with container orchestration, sophisticated job scheduling, and multi-tenant resource management
  • Track record of technical ownership over production systems where high reliability and rigorous latency constraints are the standard
More about this role

Hark is an artificial intelligence company building advanced, personalized intelligence. One that is proactive, multimodal, and capable of interacting with the world through speech, text, vision, and persistent memory.

We're pairing that intelligence with next-generation hardware to create a universal interface between humans and machines. While today's AI largely operates through chat boxes and decade-old devices, Hark is focused on what comes next: agentic systems that interact naturally with people and the real world.

To get there, we're developing multimodal models and next-generation AI hardware together - designed from the ground up as a single, unified interface for a new era of intelligent systems.

We are seeking a Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure Speech to lead and scale the backbone of Hark's real-time speech-to-speech engine. Positioned at the nexus of systems engineering and speech AI, you will be accountable for the reliability, latency, and performance of the infrastructure supporting our live speech models. This is a high-impact technical role designed for someone who excels in low-latency distributed environments and approaches infrastructure with a...

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