ASR Engineer
About the Role
This is a foundational engineering role at an early-stage AI consumer hardware and software startup, where you will own the transcription pipeline end-to-end. You will work hands-on with product and general management leadership to build, tune, and ship a cloud-based ASR system with a narrowly scoped on-device component. Your work directly shapes how well the core product experience feels to real users.
What You'll Do
Build and iterate on the cloud-based ASR pipeline, from audio capture through post-processing, running in production at scale.
Own ASR quality and reliability end-to-end, shipping measurable improvements across latency, small-word accuracy, and voice-print reliability.
Work across data preparation, model training and fine-tuning, evaluation, and deployment to translate product feedback into shipped pipeline changes.
Collaborate with a Partner Product Engineer on shared backend and pipeline surfaces.
Coordinate across time zones with R&D, hardware, and supply-chain teams based in China.
Operate with minimal specification, turning informal asks into concrete, shipped improvements.
