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Audio Inference Engineer, Model Efficiency

United States; Canada, New York · Job Posted February 20, 2026
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Our team is a fast-growing group of committed researchers and engineers. The mission of the team is to build reliable machine learning systems and optimize audio inference serving efficiency using innovative techniques. As an engineer on this team, you will work on advancing core audio model serving metrics, including latency, throughput, and quality by diving deep into our systems, identifying bottlenecks, and delivering creative solutions for audio processing and streaming workloads. You’ll collaborate closely with both the training and serving infrastructure teams to ensure seamless integration between model development and deployment, with a special focus on real-time and streaming audio inference.

Job Responsibility

  • Work on advancing core audio model serving metrics, including latency, throughput, and quality by diving deep into our systems, identifying bottlenecks, and delivering creative solutions for audio processing and streaming workloads
  • Collaborate closely with both the training and serving infrastructure teams to ensure seamless integration between model development and deployment, with a special focus on real-time and streaming audio inference

Requirements

  • Significant experience developing high-performance audio or machine learning inference systems
  • Proficiency with programming languages such as C++ and Python
  • Hands-on experience with deep learning models for audio, speech, or language applications
  • A bias for action and a strong results-oriented mindset

Nice to have

  • GPU programming, low-level system optimization, model parallelization techniques over multiple GPUs
  • Have experience with duplex real-time streaming architectures
  • Internals of machine learning frameworks for audio (such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or specialized audio libraries)
  • Have experience with inference framework like vLLM, SGLang, Tensort-LLM, or custom distributed inference systems
  • Sequence modeling (e.g., transformers for audio/speech) and end-to-end audio pipeline optimization

What we offer

  • An open and inclusive culture and work environment
  • Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research
  • Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches & snacks
  • Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health
  • 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months
  • Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement
  • Remote-flexible, offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco, London and Paris, as well as a co-working stipend
  • 6 weeks of vacation (30 working days!)

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