# Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Voice AI at Lightberry

- Company: Lightberry (YC F25)
- What the company does: Robots with soul. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://lightberry.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $130K to $280K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-02-12
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lightberry/jobs/J1rOMLl-senior-staff-software-engineer-voice-ai
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/lightberry-senior-staff-software-engineer-voice-ai/

## About the role

Humanoid robots doing backflips are super cool, but to be useful they need to be able to listen, communicate, and operate in the world. Your role in our organization would be to help make that a reality by developing the cloud-based side of our robots that makes them intelligently understand the people interacting with them.

## What they're looking for

- Experience with cloud development (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes)
- Experience with latency sensitive applications (voice pipelines, video games, streaming)
- Experience with voice AI
- High ownership of product features
- Addiction to observability metrics
- Excellent taste in developer tooling

Tags: Engineering