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CTO-JT

ApTaskVisit website ↗·Posted 1 month ago

Location

Pune, Maharashtra, IN

About the Role

We're Hiring a Founding CTO | AI Voice Agent Startup (Remote with Equity)
At JobTalk.ai, we're building the future of recruiting with AI voice agents that make 100s of intelligent, real-time calls every day — sourcing, screening, and scheduling without human intervention.
We're looking for a CTO who's not just looking for a job, but a co-founder seat at the table.
Must-Have Skills:
• 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience

• Strong Python skills for building and scaling AI voice agents

• Deep understanding of TTS/STT (e.g., ElevenLabs, Cartesia)

• Real-time audio processing, latency optimization, interruption handling

• Caching strategies for cost-effective TTS (e.g., Redis/RAG-based retrieval)

• Experience scaling to 100s of simultaneous calls

• Expertise in WebRTC, peer-to-peer voice systems

• Knowledge of function calling, live agent transfers, automated SMS/Email/WhatsApp

• Experience with SaaS architecture, multi-tenant design, Docker

Bonus Points:
• Previous startup or founding team experience

• Knowledge of answering machine detection

• Experience deploying LLMs + prompt engineering

• ex-CTOs of failed startups — we welcome you!

Offer:
• Competitive compensation

• Up to 10% equity

• Remote work, with occasional travel to Pune to meet real users

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Ideal Candidate

An engineer who has shipped real-time audio systems at scale (WebRTC, VoIP, or similar) and either founded before or was in the first 10 people of a high-growth startup.

Estimated Salary Range(low confidence)

₹35 L – ₹65 L per year

Likely Interview Questions

1.Walk us through a production incident where you had to optimize latency in real-time audio/voice systems. What was the bottleneck and how did you measure success?
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