On-Device Research Engineer
About Hark
Hark is an artificial intelligence company building advanced, personalized intelligence. One that is proactive, multimodal, and capable of interacting with the world through speech, text, vision, and persistent memory.
We're pairing that intelligence with next-generation hardware to create a universal interface between humans and machines. While today's AI largely operates through chat boxes and decade-old devices, Hark is focused on what comes next: agentic systems that interact naturally with people and the real world.
To get there, we're developing multimodal models and next-generation AI hardware together - designed from the ground up as a single, unified interface for a new era of intelligent systems.
About the Role
We are looking for an On-Device Research Engineer to compress large audio and multimodal models into student models that meet the size, latency, and power budgets of our shipping hardware. This role sits between training and production. You will take teacher models from our research pipeline and produce student models that run on DSP, NPU, and microcontroller targets across our product line. You will own distillation, quantization, and architecture-aware compression as a first-class work-stream.
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