Edge ML Engineer: Real-Time Speech & Autonomous Systems

Primordial Labs; New Haven (CT); On-site; USD 200,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity stake

100% Remote

Health coverage

401(k) with 6% match

DTO time off

Job summary

Primordial Labs is hiring to build Anura, a next‑generation interface for commanding autonomous systems at the tactical edge. This role owns speech, language understanding, and the full stack from data to deployed models that run without cloud support in constrained hardware.

You will design data pipelines, train domain-specific models, and ruthlessly optimize for latency and memory while shipping production-grade code.

Qualifications

• Substantial hands-on experience training, optimizing, and deploying ML models in production.
• Speech and language depth across both speech recognition and natural language understanding.
• Proficiency in Python and modern deep learning frameworks with custom training loops and data pipelines.
• Proven ability to move models into a deployable inference path for production.
• Degree in CS, EE, Computational Linguistics, or related field, or equivalent proof you can do the work.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and decide on architectures and modeling approaches based on operational criteria.
• Build data engine with synthetic data generation tooling and augmentation pipelines.
• Train and fine-tune domain-specific models for noisy, degraded audio environments.
• Optimize latency and memory usage with data-backed benchmarking.
• Mature deployment: serve model weights via production runtime with lean scaffolding.
• Close the loop: measure success by field outcomes and create actionable improvements.
• Sharpen our MLOps: improve training, tracking, evaluation, and release processes.

Skills

Production ML experience

Speech recognition

Natural language understanding

Python

Deep learning frameworks

Data pipelines

Model deployment

Optimization

Education

Degree in CS/EE/Computational Linguistics or related field

Tools

TensorFlow/PyTorch

Job description

Primordial Labs is hiring to build Anura, a next‑generation interface for commanding autonomous systems at the tactical edge. This role owns speech, language understanding, and the full stack from data to deployed models that run without cloud support in constrained hardware.

You will design data pipelines, train domain-specific models, and ruthlessly optimize for latency and memory while shipping production-grade code.