You will architect and build a mission-critical, real-time translation pipeline that ingests live streams and synthesizes translated audio with sub-second latency. Working at the intersection of media and AI, you will influence the technical direction of a high-performance system designed to scale for enterprise broadcasters and global media companies.
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Senior Rust Engineer at Lingopal
As a Senior Rust Engineer, you’ll architect a cutting-edge real-time translation pipeline that enables global audiences to experience live sports and broadcasts in their native language with sub-second latency. This high-ownership role offers the chance to define a technology that doesn't yet exist, working with a performance-driven team in Palo Alto. If you have 8+ years of experience and a passion for production Rust and media engineering, this is the career-defining opportunity you’ve been looking for.
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Location
Palo Alto, United States
Compensation
$175k-$195k + Equity
Company
Lingopal
Role overview
Lingopal.ai is an AI-powered platform specializing in real-time speech-to-speech translation, allowing live stream audio to be instantly translated into over 120 languages while preserving the speaker's tone, emotion, slang, idioms, and industry-specific jargon. It offers plug-and-play solutions for sports, news, media, and corporate sectors, with low latency under two seconds, outperforming human translators in accuracy and cost.
What you will do
- Design and optimize high-throughput, low-latency audio/video processing pipelines using Rust, SRT, and MPEG-TS protocols.
- Implement complex muxing/demuxing logic to seamlessly integrate AI-generated translated audio into live video streams.
- Lead the development of async microservices using Tokio, KEDA, and Kubernetes to handle event-driven media workloads at scale.
Who this is a fit for
- Has 8+ years of software engineering experience with a minimum of 2 years building production-grade systems in Rust.
- Demonstrates deep expertise in async Rust patterns, Tokio, and building distributed systems with sub-second latency requirements.
- Brings experience with media frameworks like FFmpeg or streaming protocols such as RTMP, MPEG-TS, and HLS in production environments.
Why this role is remarkable
- Architect a first-of-its-kind streaming system that replaces live audio in real-time, solving a defining challenge in media technology.
- Join a fast-growing Series A startup with strong customer traction among major sports leagues and a massive enterprise pipeline.
- Receive transparent, top-tier compensation with meaningful early-stage equity in a company headquartered in the heart of Palo Alto.
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