Lead Machine Learning Engineer - Speech & Audio

• USA (Hybrid / Remote Flexibility) - California or Texas Preferred
• Full-Time Permanent Contract
• Salary: up to $280,000 (DOE)
• Total Comp: RSU, Bonus, Insurance, etc.

A cutting-edge deep-tech company is developing a new generation of ultra-efficient AI technology designed to bring intelligent capabilities directly onto everyday devices. Their platform combines advanced machine learning with embedded systems and hardware acceleration, enabling low-latency, energy-efficient AI across applications ranging from consumer electronics to robotics and autonomous systems.

They are looking to grow their engineering team with an experienced Lead Audio ML Engineer who can drive the development of advanced audio AI models, set the technical direction for the team, and own the end-to-end delivery of real-world deployment pipelines.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading and mentoring a team of audio ML engineers across the full model development lifecycle
• Owning delivery of deep learning solutions for speech enhancement, noise reduction, sound event detection, and localisation
• Driving model optimisation, compression, and efficiency improvements for embedded deployment
• Leading multi-sensor audio data analysis and setting standards for model evaluation
• Building research prototypes and scalable evaluation pipelines
• Acting as the technical bridge across research, software, and hardware engineering teams
• Overseeing deployment, testing, and production validation processes — ensuring quality and reliability at every stage

Ideal Profile:

• Proven experience as a technical lead or senior individual contributor in machine learning, deep learning, or audio signal processing
• Strong hands-on proficiency in Python and frameworks such as PyTorch — able to dive deep into complex engineering problems
• Solid understanding of DSP concepts and audio processing techniques
• Experience owning model training, evaluation, and optimisation workflows end-to-end
• Familiarity with embedded systems or efficient ML deployment is highly desirable
• A natural technical leader with strong communication skills, able to work independently and drive progress in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment

This is a unique opportunity to step into a senior technical leadership role at the forefront of embedded AI, shaping both the direction and the technologies that bring intelligent audio capabilities to Edge devices.

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