ASR Engineer

You'll own the transcription pipeline end-to-end at an early-stage ambient intelligence consumer startup — a cloud-based ASR system with a narrowly scoped on-device component. As one of the company's first US engineering hires, you'll work hands-on with senior product and business leadership to build, tune, debug, and ship pipeline improvements directly.

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 across latency, small-word accuracy, and voice-print reliability.

Work across data, training/fine-tuning, evaluation, and deployment to translate product feedback into shipped pipeline changes.

Collaborate closely with overseas R&D, hardware, and supply-chain teams across time zones.

Partner with a product-focused backend engineer on shared pipeline surfaces.

Operate with minimal specification, turning lightweight asks into concrete, production-ready improvements.

3+ years building and tuning transcription/ASR pipelines end-to-end in production, primarily in cloud-based settings.

Demonstrated ownership of production ASR systems through the full lifecycle: data preparation, model training/fine-tuning, evaluation, and deployment.