Senior Audio AI Engineer for Real-Time Smart Homes

NRG

Washington (District of Columbia)

Hybrid

USD 190,000 - 207,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Vision benefits

Dental benefits

401K

Flexible spending accounts

Job summary

NRG Energy is seeking a Sr Audio Intelligence Engineer to build conversational and audio AI experiences for the smart home. This role will develop real-time speech, audio understanding, and multimodal interaction systems across mobile, panel, camera, and future agentic experiences.

The base salary range is $190,000 to $207,000 with eligible bonuses and benefits. Position requires in-office presence in Seattle, WA on a hybrid schedule; start remote and transition to hybrid as feasible.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/Software Eng/AI/ML with relevant experience.
5+ years in software development, applied science, or ML engineering (Bachelor’s) or 2+ years (Master’s).
Experience with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, audio understanding, or conversational AI systems.

Responsibilities

Design and build conversational and audio AI experiences using STT, TTS, LLMs, and multimodal context.
Optimize latency, reliability, privacy, grounding, and user experience for real-time interactions.
Build evaluation frameworks for conversational quality, task completion, and safety.
Integrate audio intelligence with agentic tool use, memory, personalization, and smart-home context.
Evaluate and benchmark emerging speech, audio, and multimodal AI technologies.
Deploy and monitor production audio and conversational AI services at scale.