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Audio Algorithm Engineer

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United States , San Francisco

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Salary:

150000.00 - 240000.00 USD / Year

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

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 21, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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