Sr Software Engineer, Audio Intelligence
NRG•VIRTUAL, WA
•$150,000 - $180,000
About The Position
We are seeking a Sr Audio Intelligence Engineer to build conversational and audio AI experiences for the smart home. This role will develop real-time speech, audio understanding, and multimodal interaction systems across mobile, panel, camera, and future agentic experiences.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI/ML, or a related technical field, and 5+ years of professional experience in software development, applied science, or ML engineering; or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI/ML, or a related technical field, and 2+ years of professional experience in software development, applied science, or ML engineering
- Experience with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, audio understanding, or conversational AI systems
- Strong Python software engineering skills
- Experience integrating LLMs or multimodal models into production applications
- Familiarity with prompt engineering, evaluation, conversation design, latency optimization, and cloud AI services
- Experience with Git, CI/CD, production monitoring, and cross-functional product collaboration
Nice To Haves
- Experience with wake word, streaming audio, real-time inference, ASR/NLU frameworks, or ambient sound classification
- Experience building consumer-facing voice, assistant, smart-home, or conversational products
- Familiarity with edge AI, embedded devices, IoT, Linux-based systems, or hybrid edge/cloud architectures
- Experience with privacy-aware audio systems, grounding, safety, and customer-trust mechanisms
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GCP/AWS, or scalable AI service deployment
Responsibilities
- Design and build conversational and audio AI experiences using STT, TTS, LLMs, audio understanding, and multimodal context.
- Optimize latency, reliability, privacy, grounding, and user experience for real-time interactions.
- Build evaluation frameworks for conversational quality, task completion, audio understanding, customer satisfaction, and safety.
- Integrate audio intelligence with agentic tool use, memory, personalization, and smart-home context.
- Evaluate and benchmark emerging speech, audio, and multimodal AI technologies.
- Deploy and monitor production audio and conversational AI services at scale.
Benefits
- medical
- vision
- dental
- 401K
- flexible spending accounts
- annual bonus
- short- and long-term incentives
- program-specific awards
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
