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Hark

Lead Audio ML Engineer

San Jose, CA · On-site

$120K/yr

About the Role We are looking for an Lead Audio ML Engineer to implement, train, and ship audio ... this full-time position is between $120,000 and $300,000 annually. The pay offered for this ...

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Audio Visual Tech II

Emeryville, CA · On-site

$65K - $90K/yr

You will work closely with Engineering and Technical Project managers to maintain standards, stay ... The roles are full-time and require travel around the Bay Area.

Mirafra Technology

Multimedia Engineer

San Diego, CA

... : Full Time Location : San Diego,CA The team working on product like STB, Connected Camera,VR/AR, Drones and is looking for experienced engineer with rich Multimedia experience focusing on Audio ...

SONANCE

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

San Clemente, CA · On-site

$132K - $173K/yr

San Clemente, CA Type: Full time Build the Firmware That Powers the Future of Audio Sonance is an industry-leading manufacturer of custom-install speakers and audio electronics. At Sonance, we ...

Anaheim Ducks

Director, Broadcasting

Anaheim, CA · On-site

$100K - $120K/yr

Manage a team of 12 people, including four full-time employees, radio and TV broadcast talent, and ... audio programming throughout the season and offseason * Responsible for managing each layer of the ...

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What is the difference between Fulltime Audio Programmer vs Audio Software Engineer?

AspectFulltime Audio ProgrammerAudio Software Engineer
Required CredentialsBachelor's in Computer Science, Audio Engineering, or related field; experience with audio middlewareBachelor's or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related; strong programming skills in C++/C#
Work EnvironmentGame studios, multimedia companies, or audio-focused tech firmsSoftware development companies, audio technology firms, or gaming industry
Employer & Industry UsagePrimarily in gaming, VR/AR, and multimedia projectsIn audio software development, digital audio workstations, and audio plugin companies

The main difference is that a Fulltime Audio Programmer focuses on integrating and optimizing audio within interactive applications like games, while an Audio Software Engineer develops audio software tools and plugins. Both roles require strong programming skills and audio knowledge but differ in their primary focus and application environment.

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Lead Audio ML Engineer

Lead Audio ML Engineer

Hark

San Jose, CA • On-site

$120K/yr

Full-time

Posted 23 days ago

Job description

About Hark
Hark is an artificial intelligence company building advanced, personalized intelligence. One that is proactive, multimodal, and capable of interacting with the world through speech, text, vision, and persistent memory.
We're pairing that intelligence with next-generation hardware to create a universal interface between humans and machines. While today's AI largely operates through chat boxes and decade-old devices, Hark is focused on what comes next: agentic systems that interact naturally with people and the real world.
To get there, we're developing multimodal models and next-generation AI hardware together - designed from the ground up as a single, unified interface for a new era of intelligent systems.
About the Role
We are looking for an Lead Audio ML Engineer to implement, train, and ship audio models that run on-device across our consumer products. This role spans the full lifecycle of on-device audio intelligence: model design, training, evaluation, and deployment to constrained hardware. You will work alongside our DSP, firmware, and product teams to turn audio model research into production features that ship at scale.
Responsibilities
  • Implement and train audio models for wake-word detection, voice activity detection, source separation, speech enhancement and similar audio
  • Take models from research prototype to on-device deployment within latency, memory, and power budgets
  • Build and maintain training data pipelines, evaluation harnesses, and re-training cadence across model families
  • Partner with DSP and firmware engineers to integrate models into the Hark Audio Engine and DSP runtime
  • Collaborate with hardware and acoustics teams to characterize the signal conditions models must operate under
  • Profile and optimize models on target platforms (DSP, NPU, CPU) and define accuracy and resource budgets per product

Requirements
  • 3+ years of professional experience building and shipping audio or speech ML models
  • Strong fluency in PyTorch or TensorFlow and modern audio deep learning toolchains
  • Hands-on experience deploying models to embedded targets such as DSP, NPU, or mobile NPU and CPU
  • Comfort working across the full ML lifecycle: data, training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
  • Solid foundation in audio signal processing concepts and how they intersect with ML pipelines
  • Experience collaborating with DSP, firmware, and hardware engineers on resource-constrained systems

Bonus Qualifications
  • Background shipping voice-first or far-field audio products
  • Experience with on-device wake-word, ASR front-ends, or speech enhancement at production scale
  • Familiarity with model compression techniques such as quantization, pruning, and distillation
  • Familiarity with Qualcomm AI stacks or similar alternatives from other providers
  • Open-source contributions to audio ML projects

Compensation
The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $120,000 and $300,000 annually.
The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package may also include additional components and benefits depending on the specific role. This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.

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