SoundHound AI believes every person should be able to interact naturally with the products around them–by simply talking. With a global reach spanning two dozen languages, we build Voice AI products with conversational intelligence for cars, restaurant ordering, and more, allowing our customers to extend their brand in new and meaningful ways.

In the Menu Data Engineering team we take menus intended for visualization and turn them into versions that can be more naturally navigated by voice. We employ the latest technologies, including externally built LLMs, and our own programming language CaiLan, with the goal of creating tools to enable analysts to very quickly verify and build out these voice menus. Additionally we work on APIs to facilitate the ingestion of these menus as well as orders from them. Our team works closely with both NLU engineers as well as analysts towards quickly onboarding menus and providing a seamless customer experience.

In this role, you will:

• Be a key player in shaping the future of AI-based transactions within the restaurant industry
• Design algorithms that can ingest menus and augment their contents to be part of a voice interface
• Build systems that can facilitate order placement from these modified menus
• Provide APIs for other systems to integrate seamlessly
• Collaborate with multiple teams across North America and Europe

We would love to hear from you if:

• You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with 5+ years of full time work experience; or a Master's degree with 3+ years of full-time work experience
• You have proficiency in at least one programming language such as C++, Python, Java, Go, or C#.
• You have experience with at least one source code management tool like Git, Subversion, Mercurial or Perforce.

Nice to have:

• You have experience with JVM, Kubernetes & LLMs
• You have experience with functional programming languages like Clojure, Scala, Lisp, Scheme, OCaml, F#, Elixir, or Erlang.
• Additional skills that would be useful to have are prompt engineering and API design (Swagger, Postman, JSON, REST, OpenAPI, ...)

This role is available throughout the Toronto Canada area. Employees within a 100-kilometer radius of our Toronto office are expected to work from the office on three pre-scheduled “core days” each month to encourage cross-team connection and in-person collaboration. Aside from these office-specific “core days,” this job allows for virtual/remote, hybrid, and in-office workplace setting options. In addition to salary and equity, you will receive comprehensive healthcare, paid time off, and other benefits. Our recruiting team will provide a specific salary range based on location and years of experience.