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title: 'Software Engineer - Language Technologies Engineering - China at SoundHound AI'
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# Software Engineer - Language Technologies Engineering - China at SoundHound AI

- **Company:** SoundHound AI
- **Location:** Beijing, China
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/soundhound/am9icG9zdDptHzoOec_c_d5ylKrK-biP

## Job description

The Opportunity 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. A Partner Engineer, Voice AI and NLU (Automotive) is a skilled software engineer who collaborates with automotive customers/partners to enable the seamless integration of our voice AI in automotive, with a focus on Natural Language Understanding. They own the alignment of partner requirements, help identify integration risks/friction points, and support voice AI platform enhancements.​ The role requires strong software engineering skills (including knowledge of key programming languages and concepts, design methodologies, etc.) to adapt to partner needs, plus exceptional communication skills for engaging partners to resolve roadblocks, align timelines, and gather feedback.​ This engineer manages multiple focused concurrent projects, using reliable time management and prioritization to balance partner deliverables and internal milestones, while collaborating cross-functionally.

## What You'll Do

- Have solid programming knowledge, ideally including C++, and can apply strong software engineering fundamentals to complex technical problems.
- Contribute directly to building SoundHound’s automotive Voice AI product, with a particular focus on enabling and improving new languages.
- Deliver with advanced coding processes and comfortable adopting new solutions, including AI-assisted coding and code review.
- Collaborate with top automakers to integrate SoundHound’s Voice AI into vehicles.​
- Act as a go-to expert on SoundHound’s Voice AI, guiding partners with your deep technical knowledge.​
- Troubleshoot: gather data, replicate/resolve/escalate issues, test solutions for timely success.​
- File detailed tickets, escalate issues to engineering, and contribute to the refinement of our products.
- Own all technical aspects of the partner project, translating business needs into specs and leveraging your expertise in SoundHound’s Voice AI and Android technologies.
- Grow partnerships iteratively: add value while aligning with engineering to enhance the platform.​
- Design and implement long-term and short-term solutions to meet business goals.​
- Coordinate effectively with the engineering teams building advanced voice assistants.​
- Build and maintain project plans, aligning partner milestones with internal product timelines.​
- Write detailed documentation and oversee the entire project scope, schedule and deployment.
- Identify, mitigate, and resolve risks to ensure project success.​
- Foster a collaborative international work environment, where integrating diverse perspectives is crucial.
- You will act as the primary technical point of contact for our Automotive partners, and are expected to provide expert-level support and guidance in handling complex issues and requirements related to integrating our voice AI solutions
- You will build strong relationship with the partners, and act as the main go-to person when Automotive partners have questions about our products or have trouble integrating our solution. You will be an expert in a large number of subjects, ranging from new ASR language developments, wake words, audio processing pipelines, our cloud domains, infrastructure issues, etc.
- You will have the first responsibility to investigate and troubleshoot issues using our tools and provide the necessary fixes on the partner side, if possible, and if needed, escalate issues to the engineering team with your initial detailed analysis, as well as providing concrete and actionable feedback.
- You will work closely with Technical Program Management (TPM), Engineering, and Product teams to work on system improvements, feature requests, and inform about emerging customer needs.

## What You'll Bring

- You have 5+ years of experience in software engineering or technical program management, and a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Your experience in technical program management includes Linux, Python, C++, ASR as well as knowledge of AI technologies.
- You have demonstrated an ability to lead cross-functional and cross-cultural teams, managing complex projects in a dynamic, international environment.

## About SoundHound AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: SoundHound AI builds voice-native conversational AI agents and platforms that automate operations, service, and commerce across industries like restaurants, automotive, finance, healthcare, and retail.
- **Entity Type**: Public (Nasdaq: SOUN)
- **Headquarters**: Santa Clara, California, United States (with presence in France, Japan, China, and 27 countries total)
- **Founded**: 2005 (as Melodis; rebranded to SoundHound Inc. in 2010 and SoundHound AI in 2022)
- **Founders**: Majid Emami (co-founder) and Keyvan Mohajer (co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Voice AI, Conversational AI Agents, Generative AI, Enterprise Software, Restaurant Technology, Automotive Tech, Healthcare AI
- **Target customers**: B2B / Enterprise — restaurants (drive-thru and ordering), automotive OEMs and partners, financial services, healthcare providers, retail, IT service desks, and HR organizations
- **Mission or purpose**: "Voice-enable the world with conversational intelligence" — creating AI agents "that run operations, service, and commerce for brands in the real world" and exceed human capabilities

## Products & Services
- **OASYS Platform**: A voice-native conversational AI platform for building and deploying reliable AI agents across operations, service, and commerce
- **Smart Ordering**: AI agents that take and process orders, automate drive-thrus, offer add-ons, and support restaurant staff
- **Dynamic Drive-Thru**: AI-powered drive-thru ordering automation for quick-service restaurants
- **Smart Answering**: AI-driven call handling and appointment-management agents for businesses
- **Amelia Platform**: Enterprise AI agent platform (acquired in 2024) that powers AI agents for large enterprise brands across verticals
- **SoundHound Chat AI**: Voice assistant combining SoundHound's conversational AI with leading generative AI platforms for the next generation of voice assistants
- **Autonomics**: Operations platform that automates IT service desk tasks and HR processes (password resets, troubleshooting, account management, etc.)
- **Industry-specific agents**: HIPAA-compliant healthcare agents integrated with Epic; secure banking agents for accounts, loans, fraud reporting; automotive in-car assistants; telecom outage alerting; retail shopping and returns agents

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed in the sources reviewed; as a publicly traded company, current market value fluctuates daily — check latest SOUN quotes ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundHound_AI), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/soundhoundai))
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of **$168.9M**; **$721M** in total funding raised across 12 rounds (pre/post IPO); **603 employees** (+30.7% YoY, +182 headcount)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Mercedes-Benz, Motorola, PSA Auto, Deutsche Telekom, Harman, VIZIO, Snap Inc., Mastercard, and Epic (healthcare EHR integration) ([SoundHound About](https://www.soundhound.com/about))
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Automates **10 billion+ conversations annually** and holds **400+ patents**
  - Named a **Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms**
  - Acquired **Synq3 Restaurant Solutions** (2024), creating an AI market leader with **10,000+ live restaurant locations**
  - Acquired **Amelia** (2024), expanding enterprise conversational AI scale and reach
  - Workforce distributed across 27 countries including US, India, Canada, Germany, and France

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary technology**: Speech-to-Meaning® and Deep Meaning Understanding® enable speed and accuracy that the company says surpasses Big Tech voice AI
- **Patented IP moat**: 400+ patents and 20+ years of specialist voice AI R&D
- **Independent platform**: Unlike competitors tied to one big-tech stack, SoundHound offers a neutral voice-native AI platform (OASYS) with the company's own Agentic+ framework
- **Industry depth**: Deep vertical playbooks in restaurants (10,000+ live locations), automotive, healthcare (Epic/HIPAA), and finance
- **Scale and track record**: Billions of annual interactions give unique data and reliability signals across real-world deployments

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale AI agents on OASYS**: Driving the new voice-native conversational AI platform as the core engine for agent deployment
- **Vertical expansion**: Deepening healthcare (Epic-integrated, HIPAA-compliant agents), finance, retail, telecom, IT service desk, and HR offerings
- **Acquisition-led growth**: Leveraging Synq3 (restaurants) and Amelia (enterprise) to expand into new verticals and large enterprise brands
- **Generative AI integration**: Continuing to blend SoundHound Chat AI with leading generative AI models to create next-gen assistants
- **Globalization**: Expanding across automotive OEM partnerships in Japan/China and multilingual deployments (25+ languages)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: The company emphasizes a collaborative, diverse environment with "openness, curiosity, collaboration, innovation, and humility" — hiring across backgrounds, cultures, ethnicities, genders, and philosophies ([SoundHound Careers](https://www.soundhound.com/careers/))
- **Mission-driven work**: Teammates contribute to pioneering AI agent technology and "voice-enabling the world" with 10B+ interactions annually
- **Perks**: Competitive salary and benefits designed to support "a healthy work-life balance"
- **Global footprint**: Offices in Santa Clara (HQ) with collaboration across the globe; open roles include Partner Engineer (Voice AI), Technical Program Manager (Automotive), and AI Agent engineering positions in the US, Japan, and China
- **Growth environment**: Joining a high-growth public company with +30.7% headcount growth YoY, recent major acquisitions, and a leadership position in a fast-moving AI category

## Sources
1. [SoundHound.com](https://www.soundhound.com/)
2. [SoundHound Careers](https://www.soundhound.com/careers/)
3. [SoundHound About](https://www.soundhound.com/about)
4. [LinkedIn — SoundHound AI](https://www.linkedin.com/company/soundhoundai)
5. [Wikipedia — SoundHound AI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundHound_AI)

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