Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Principal Consultant | Physical AI, Computer Vision & Smart Manufacturing/Robotics Senior Audio / Speech ML Engineer — Voice-Controlled Robotics | Edge AI | Autonomy

Location:
Austin, TX

Salary: $150,000 - $225,000 + Early Stage Equity

We are working with a rapidly growing, well-funded startup operating at the cutting edge of autonomous robotics and voice-based human–machine interaction. Backed by globally recognized investors, the team is building conversational AI systems that enable operators to control multiple autonomous platforms through natural language.

They are now hiring a Senior Audio / Speech Machine Learning Engineer to own the end-to-end speech capability—from data collection through deployment on edge hardware in real-world environments.

• Build speech recognition and audio understanding models (STT / STS) from the ground up
• Own the entire audio ML pipeline
  —data, training infrastructure, deployment, optimization
• Design model architectures for noisy, real-world environments (wind, radio noise, variable microphones)
• Deploy and optimize models on resource-constrained edge devices (e.g., NVIDIA Jetson)
• Define and improve WER and related performance metrics
• Run field tests and data-collection campaigns in live environments
• Influence audio hardware decisions and quality requirements
• Stay current with speech recognition, multimodal, and edge-AI research
• Degree in CS, ML, AI, Audio Engineering, or related field
• Proven track record building and shipping audio ML systems end-to-end
• Strong knowledge of audio DSP and frequency-domain processing
• Expert-level Python for ML (training loops, pipelines, experiment tracking)
• Experience with production deployment, quantization, and optimization
• Willingness to travel for field testing and data capture

• Worked on audio-focused ML products or speech tech
• Experience deploying on ARM or NVIDIA Jetson platforms
• ROS / ROS2 for robotics integration
• Multimodal AI (speech + vision + language)

• $150,000 - $225,000
• Equity (early stage)
• Strong PTO
• 401k
• Life Insurance
• Short/Long-Term Disability, Wellness Programs.

If interested please click apply now for immediate consideration!