Audio AI Engineer
Dev Technologyabout 3 hours ago
Reston, VA, USAMid Level / Senior
Base Salary
$80k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Ingest, clean, segment, label, and version multilingual audio and transcript data.
- Fine-tune and compress large ASR models for iPhone-class memory and latency constraints.
- Design model packaging for dynamic, per-language deployment based on use-case context.
- Build and evaluate model behavior for handling borrowed English terms in transcription.
- Create reproducible evaluation pipelines for assessing model performance.
- Produce clear documentation for stakeholders regarding model capabilities and limitations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
- Strong data-engineering background with production pipelines for audio/text datasets.
- Experience fine-tuning or adapting speech/audio models using parameter-efficient methods.
- Practical experience with ASR model development and evaluation across multiple languages.
- Strong Python and SQL skills; familiarity with PyTorch and related tools.
- Experience deploying and monitoring production ML systems in regulated environments.
- Ability to explain model behavior and tradeoffs to diverse stakeholders.
Benefits
- Generous and flexible time-off policy.
- Flexible work schedules and telework options.
- Career development opportunities including mentorship and training.
- Industry-leading benefits including health plans, flexible spending accounts, and life insurance.
- 401K matching with a 5% contribution.
- Regular team and company social events.
- Focus on community engagement and volunteer support.