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Dev Technology

Audio AI Engineer

Reston, VA · On-site

$80K - $160K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

Strong data-engineering background building production pipelines for large, messy, or unstructured audio/text datasets. * Hands-on experience fine-tuning or adapting speech/audio models using ...

Dev Technology

Audio AI Engineer

Reston, VA

$80K - $160K/yr

Audio AI Engineer, #1085 Multilingual Speech-to-Text Engineer -- On-Device Model Optimization, #1085 A Role with Purpose and Impact This role builds the speech recognition core of a mobile ...

Dev Technology Group

Audio AI Engineer

Washington, DC

$80K - $160K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

Audio AI Engineer, #1085 Multilingual Speech-to-Text Engineer -- On-Device Model Optimization, #1085 A Role with Purpose and Impact This role builds the speech recognition core of a mobile ...

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Experienced Audio-Visual Technician with Security Clearance

Beltsville, MD · On-site

$110K - $150K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Programming control systems * Other duties as assigned Required Skills/Abilities: * Expertise in processing control, routing, and audio video signal flow with broadcast software * Understanding AV ...

War on the Rocks

Podcast Engineer

Washington, DC · On-site

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • PTO

This role requires deep audio engineering expertise, creative problem-solving, and the ability to work closely with hosts, editors, and guests to deliver polished, compelling episodes on deadline.

War on the Rocks

Podcast Engineer

Washington, DC · On-site +1

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • PTO

This role requires deep audio engineering expertise, creative problem-solving, and the ability to work closely with hosts, editors, and guests to deliver polished, compelling episodes on deadline.

War on the Rocks

Podcast Engineer

Washington, DC · On-site

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • PTO

This role requires deep audio engineering expertise, creative problem-solving, and the ability to work closely with hosts, editors, and guests to deliver polished, compelling episodes on deadline.

The MIL Corporation

A/V Technician II

Bethesda, MD · On-site

$48K - $72K/yr

  • Medical

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Required Summary The MIL Corporation is looking for an A/V Technician II to support a Federal ... cyber, engineering, financial management, and information technology - and we are looking for ...

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How much do audio programmer jobs pay per hour?

As of Aug 17, 2026, the average hourly pay for audio programmer in Washington, DC is $44.61, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $29.04 and $58.03 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What does an audio programmer do?

An Audio Programmer is responsible for developing and integrating audio systems in software, such as video games, virtual reality applications, and multimedia tools. They work with audio engines, optimize sound performance, and write code to implement music, sound effects, and voice processing. Typically, they collaborate with sound designers and developers to ensure seamless audio experiences. Audio Programmers use languages like C++, C#, or Python and may work with middleware such as FMOD or Wwise. Their role bridges the gap between sound design and software engineering.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as an audio programmer?

To thrive as an Audio Programmer, you need solid programming skills (C++, C#, or similar), a background in digital signal processing or computer science, and often a degree in a relevant field. Familiarity with audio middleware systems (such as FMOD or Wwise), DAWs, and game engines (like Unity or Unreal) is typically expected, along with experience using version control tools. Strong problem-solving abilities, creativity, and effective cross-disciplinary communication skills help you stand out in this role. These proficiencies are essential for building innovative audio features, collaborating efficiently with teams, and meeting the complex technical requirements of modern audio applications.

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Infographic showing various Audio Programmer job openings in Washington, DC as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 78% Full Time, 18% Part Time, 1% Temporary, and 3% Contract. Highlights an 89% Physical, 2% Hybrid, and 9% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $92,784 per year, or $44.6 per hour.

Audio AI Engineer

Dev Technology

Reston, VA • On-site

$80K - $160K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement

Posted 10 days ago

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Audio AI Engineer, #1085
Multilingual Speech-to-Text Engineer - On-Device Model Optimization, #1085
A Role with Purpose and Impact
This role builds the speech recognition core of a mobile translation capability supporting a government agency's national security mission. The engineer will take large, high-quality speech-to-text models spanning many language families and adapt, compress, and optimize them so they run performantly on an iPhone - including handling the reality that speakers frequently mix in borrowed English terms mid-utterance, and the model needs to make a sound call on whether to transcribe those terms in English or in the source language's own transliteration.
This is an applied ML role, not a research-only position. The strongest candidate can move fluidly from raw audio data, to model adaptation and compression experiments, to a rigorous evaluation framework - and can clearly explain what they're building, why it's better than the status quo, and how they'll know it worked.
What This Role Is (and Isn't)
This position owns the speech-to-text model - its data, its training/adaptation, its size and latency on-device, and its accuracy across languages. It does not own iOS application development, translation (source-language-to-target-language), or the Swift/AVFoundation integration layer; those are handled by a separate mobile engineering function this role will collaborate closely with.
Key Responsibilities
  • Data pipelines: Ingest, clean, segment, label, and version multilingual audio and transcript data, with attention to code-switching and borrowed-word phenomena across the target language set.
  • Model adaptation: Fine-tune and compress large ASR models (using LoRA/QLoRA, quantization, distillation, or other parameter-efficient and size-reduction techniques as appropriate) to fit iPhone-class memory, latency, and battery constraints, while preserving transcription quality.
  • Dynamic, per-language deployment: Design model packaging so language-specific weights can be selected and downloaded on demand based on use-case context (e.g., an operator interviewing a Chinese speaker pulls only the Chinese ASR weights).
  • Loanword/transliteration handling: Build and evaluate model behavior for deciding when a borrowed English term should be transcribed as-is versus rendered in the source language's transliteration or native equivalent.
  • Evaluation: Build reproducible evaluation pipelines (word/character error rate, latency, robustness to accent/noise/speaking rate/code-switching) and clearly articulate results against defined success criteria for each language and deployment target.
  • Documentation & communication: Produce clear model cards, dataset documentation, and evaluation write-ups that let technical and non-technical stakeholders understand what the model does, how it compares to alternatives, and what its risks and limitations are.

Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, or a closely related field.
  • Strong data-engineering background building production pipelines for large, messy, or unstructured audio/text datasets.
  • Hands-on experience fine-tuning or adapting speech/audio models using parameter-efficient methods (LoRA, QLoRA, adapters) and/or model compression techniques (quantization, distillation, pruning) for constrained hardware.
  • Practical experience with ASR/speech-to-text model development and evaluation across multiple languages, including error analysis under real-world conditions (accents, noise, code-switching).
  • Strong Python and SQL skills; experience with PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers/PEFT, torchaudio, librosa, or comparable tooling.
  • Experience deploying and monitoring production ML systems, with an understanding of secure handling of sensitive audio, transcripts, and derived data in a regulated environment.
  • Ability to clearly explain model behavior, tradeoffs, and limitations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred (Not Required)
  • Prior exposure to mobile/on-device ML deployment constraints (even without owning the mobile codebase directly).
  • Experience with agentic or multi-step workflow orchestration involving model outputs, retrieval, or human review.

The estimated salary range for this position is $80,000 - $160,000. This salary range is not a guarantee of compensation. The offered salary will be based on factors including relevant experience, geographic location, internal equity, and applicable contractual requirements. *Compensation may fall outside this range when appropriate.
Who We Are
Dev Technology is a growing IT company with an employee-centric culture that works on mission-critical projects for the federal government. We partner with our federal customers to deliver technology services and solutions, and to drive our client's missions forward through innovation. We use Agile and DevSecOps principles to provide services including application development, biometrics and identity management, cloud and infrastructure optimization, IT and legacy modernization, and data management.
As a Washington Post Top Workplace award winner for the past THIRTEEN years in a row, the Top Workplaces USA for the past five years, and a recipient of the Companies As Responsive Employers (CARE) Award for the past six years, Dev Technology employees enjoy:
  • Generous and flexible time-off policy
  • Flexible work schedules and telework options, including remote work availability for eligible projects
  • Career development opportunities including a mentorship program, technical and management training through Dev University, hands-on learning through DevLab, tuition reimbursement, and paid training opportunities
  • Industry-leading benefits including a choice of two health plans that include dental and vision, flexible spending account, commuter benefits, life insurance, and more
  • 401K matching with a 5% matching contribution
  • Regular team and company social events including our annual party, happy hours, fitness challenges, and more
  • A focus on community engagement including company wide support activities, employer match for donations, and time off for volunteer efforts
  • To learn more about working at Dev Technology, visit Working At Dev Technology Group

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