ASR Engineer
About the Role
You'll own the transcription pipeline end-to-end at an early-stage ambient intelligence consumer hardware startup, covering a cloud-based ASR system with a narrowly scoped on-device component. This is one of the first US engineering hires, and you'll work directly with the GM and Head of Product to build, tune, and ship pipeline improvements. You'll make real tradeoffs between latency, accuracy, and reliability as the product evolves.
What You'll Do
Build and iterate on the cloud-based ASR pipeline, from audio capture through post-processing, in production at scale.
Own ASR quality and reliability end-to-end, shipping measurable improvements on latency, small-word accuracy, and voice-print reliability.
Work across data, training and fine-tuning, evaluation, and deployment to turn product feedback into shipped pipeline changes.
Collaborate closely with China-based R&D, hardware, and supply-chain teams across time zones.
Partner with the product engineer on shared backend and pipeline surfaces.
Operate with minimal specification, turning loosely defined asks into concrete, production-ready improvements.
