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# Senior Software Engineer - Real Time Systems at Qualitate

- **Company:** Qualitate
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/qualitate/4437da20-e2e5-46b8-ade0-67dbcd4eea6d

## Job description

## 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 infrastructure that keeps sessions stable at scale. You’ll own reliability, observability and graceful degradation for systems where a dropped packet is a dropped insight. This is a high-ownership role on a small team. You’ll work directly with the founding team to define technical strategy for our interview platform, not just execute tickets. We’re looking for someone with 5+ years of experience who has shipped real-time, user-facing products and thrives where latency, reliability and product quality all matter at once.

## What You’ll Own

- Real-time backend architecture. You'll evolve the WebSocket infrastructure behind every live interview, from connection lifecycle, session state and message routing to backpressure and reconnection, so thousands of concurrent conversations stay stable.
- The speech-to-text pipeline. You'll own the path from incoming audio to accurate, low-latency transcripts. Working with STT providers, browser audio APIs, and ffmpeg
- Scalability. You'll build systems that grow from thousands to tens of thousands of simultaneous sessions.
- Reliability. You'll set and hold the bar for uptime on systems where a dropped connection is a lost insight.

Who This Role Is For

- 5+ years of experience building software. Ideally some of it in a startup or fast-paced environment where you owned full features end-to-end.
- Production real-time experience. You’ve shipped user-facing real-time systems built on WebSockets, WebRTC, streaming media or multiplayer, and you know how to keep them fast and available under load.
- Audio and voice fluency. You’ve worked with audio pipelines, speech-to-text, text-to-speech or voice agents, and you understand latency budgets, buffering, codecs and turn-taking.
- Strong backend skills. Node/TypeScript or similar; you design services and APIs for reliability, scale and observability.
- Proficient with frontend technologies. Ideally React. You can build responsive, live interfaces, not just wire up forms.
- Fluent with AI models and agentic coding tools. You use AI daily and understand how to build real-time experiences around LLMs. This is core to how we work.
- High ownership, low ego. You work independently, communicate proactively, and are comfortable making architecture decisions and defending them in code review.

What Sets You Apart

- You’ve built voice AI or conversational agents in production, such as phone agents, meeting assistants or live transcription.
- You’ve worked with speech to text providers such as Deepgram or AssemblyAI.
- You’ve built desktop applications (Electron, Tauri or native).
- You have a deep understanding of in-browser audio capabilities.

## Compensation & Benefits

- Base salary: $160K–$270K depending on experience.
- Bonus: Eligible for cash bonus tied to individual and company performance
- Equity: Meaningful early-stage grant with upside tied to company growth.
- Benefits: Health coverage, flexible PTO, paid holidays.
- Location: Full-time, in-person in New York City.

What to Expect Working at Qualitate

- Excellence. You'll be held accountable to an exceptionally high bar for quality and impact.
- High velocity. Fast-paced work environment in terms of growth, decision making, and time to impact.
- High agency. Ownership over how you work, not just what you work on. We hire people we trust to figure it out.
- Shared ambition. A small, early team disrupting the multi-billion dollar market research industry with AI.
- Joy. We work hard and genuinely enjoy working with each other. Dedication to our work is matched only by our passion for fostering an enjoyable, collaborative work environment.

## About Qualitate

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Qualitate is an AI-powered expert intelligence platform that automates primary research for investment firms and enterprises.
- **Entity Type**: Private (seed stage; raised $7M)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Sagar Kadakia (CEO & Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: AI-native primary research, expert networks, market intelligence
- **Target customers**: B2B – investment firms (hedge funds, credit funds, private equity), financial services, and enterprise strategy teams
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Equipping every company with the world’s most valuable asset: expert intelligence.”

## Products & Services
- **AI Moderator**: An AI agent that autonomously conducts structured interviews with verified experts, from study design to moderation and insight creation.
- **Continuous Market Intelligence**: Dashboards that track company momentum, competitive threats, and market signals through 350,000+ minutes of expert conversations, analyst research, and curated data.
- **AI Analyst**: An AI-powered assistant that can answer questions, generate executive briefings, and launch custom surveys across the intelligence library.
- **Compliance Suite**: Automatic MNPI and PII screening, firm-level access controls, and a dedicated compliance portal for regulated environments.
- **Custom Research (Diligence, Win/Loss, Channel Checks)**: On-demand, AI-facilitated primary studies delivered in under a week (typically 5 days).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – $7M seed round (announced in 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly named (listed only as “World-Class Investors”)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 25 employees as of mid-2025 with 12% monthly headcount growth (LinkedIn)
  - Proprietary data engine trained on 350,000+ minutes of expert discussions
  - Coverage of 500+ companies and 10,000+ technology markets
  - Trusted by “the world’s largest investment funds and corporations”

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertically integrated**: Owns the expert panel, moderation, and analysis stack – no third-party dependencies or handoff gaps.
- **Proprietary data engine**: The AI moderator improves with every interview on the platform, creating a data moat that third-party networks cannot replicate.
- **Compliance-first design**: Built for sensitive environments with automated screening and firm-level controls.
- **Speed**: Custom research projects delivered in ~5 days versus the traditional multi-week timeline.

## Strategic Focus
Qualitate is focused on replacing fragmented, multi-vendor primary research workflows with a single AI-native platform. The company is scaling its AI moderator capability to run hundreds of interviews per project, moving from qualitative “outlier opinions” to quantitative, time-series market signals. Growth priorities include deepening coverage across financial services and enterprise verticals, and expanding the engineering and intelligence operations teams.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Highly collaborative, fast-shipping environment with “big ambition” – described as building a new category of primary research.
- **Work Model**: On-site in New York City (all current open roles are listed as “OnSite”).
- **Team Composition**: Small but growing (25 people) with heavy influence from top expert networks (GLG, AlphaSights, CB Insights) and data companies (YipitData, Gartner).
- **Impact**: Every team member directly shapes the mission; roles span engineering, intelligence operations, sales, and product design.
- **Current openings**: Staff Software Engineer, Founding Head of Talent, multiple Account Executives (Enterprise, Financial Services, Hedge Funds, Credit Funds), and Intelligence Operations Associate – all New York City based.

## Sources
1. [qualitate.io](https://qualitate.io/)
2. [qualitate.io/about-us](https://qualitate.io/about-us)
3. [qualitate.io/careers](https://qualitate.io/careers)
4. [qualitate.io/product](https://qualitate.io/product)
5. [linkedin.com/company/qualitate-io](https://www.linkedin.com/company/qualitate-io)

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