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Audio Algorithm Engineer

United States, San Francisco 150000.00 - 240000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted February 21, 2026
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Job Description

Plaud is building the next generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture, extract, and utilize intelligence from what people say, hear, see, and think.

Job Responsibility

  • For the multi-language ASR system, research optimization solutions for terminology thesaurus from papers, and design reasonable terminology filtering and hotword optimization solutions
  • Implement multi-language hotword algorithms based on SpeechLLM and optimize their effects
  • collaborate with the engineering team to deploy the hotword recognition solution
  • Combine scenario data to fine-tune the speech recognition model and improve ASR recognition effects across multiple languages and industries
  • Build a test set and system for keyword recognition and industry recognition engines, and evaluate the terminology recognition and industry engine effects of open-source models and commercial interfaces

Requirements

  • 3 to 5 years of speech algorithm training experience, with experience in fine-tuning and training SpeechLLM
  • Experience processing hundreds of thousands of hours of speech data and training speech recognition models
  • Familiar with SpeechLLM, speech SSL training, with from-scratch training experience for models similar to StepAudio, Qwen3omni, etc.
  • Papers in top speech conferences like Interspeech, ICASSP, or patents related to speech

Nice to have

Individual contributors responsible for model training within teams like the StepAudio speech group are preferred

What we offer

  • Top-tier healthcare for employees and dependents, including dental and vision, and a generous employer subsidy
  • 401(k) plan for full time employees with company matching
  • Unlimited PTO, plus 13 paid holidays
  • 12 weeks of paid time off to spend time with your new family, regardless of gender
  • New hires are equipped with their choice of new top-of-the-line laptops and workstation setups
  • Best office equipment
  • Annual offsites
  • Free office drinks and snacks
  • performance bonus
  • Equity

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