Job Overview
Job description
- Salary:
- USD 130,000 - 230,000 per year
- Location:
- San Francisco, United States
- Work arrangement:
- On-site
Role Summary
We're building Aqua Voice for iOS. This is a greenfield project — you'll own the mobile experience from the ground up.
Responsibilities
What you'll work on
- Native iOS app with system-level voice input (keyboard extension, Shortcuts, Siri integration)
- Real-time audio capture and streaming to our transcription backend
- Deep iOS integrations
This isn't a wrapper around a web view. We care about native performance and deep system integration.
STACK
- Swift (SwiftUI + UIKit where needed)
- Audio: AVFoundation, Audio Unit, real-time streaming
- Networking: WebSockets, streaming protocols
- System: Keyboard extensions, Shortcuts, accessibility APIs
Requirements
- Shipped iOS apps to the App Store — show us what you've built
- Strong Swift fundamentals
- Experience with audio capture/processing or real-time streaming
- Comfortable working at the system level (extensions, background modes, entitlements)
- Bonus: ML/Core ML experience, accessibility work, or prior voice/speech projects
- You're fast, you ship, you don't need hand-holding
About the Company
Aqua Voice is building the voice input layer for the age of AI. We train our own models and build deep OS integrations because doing voice well requires controlling the entire stack.
The way people work is changing. IC work is over; you manage AI agents now. This type of work is wonderfully suited for voice.
We aren't building conversational agents. We believe the most natural way to interact with your computer is voice in text out (VITO). We believe that voice belongs at a level above the application, and that a small company can win by pushing the envelope.
We are applying relentless energy to this opportunity and the results so far have been good. We hope you will join us.
- Role:
- iOS Engineer
- Job Type:
- FullTime
Company profile
Aqua Voice
aquavoice.comAqua Voice builds voice dictation software that turns speech into clear text in real time on Mac, Windows and iPhone, for uses ranging from AI prompts to essays. The company trains its own speech models and builds deep operating system integrations, aiming to become the voice input layer for working with AI. Rather than building conversational agents, Aqua Voice focuses on a voice in, text out approach to computer interaction.
- Founded
- 2023
- Founders
- Finnian Brown, Jack McIntire