Senior Audio Intelligence Engineer — Real-Time Conversational AI

NRG Energy; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, and dental insurance

401K

Flexible spending accounts

Annual bonuses and incentives

Job summary

NRG Energy is looking for a Sr Audio Intelligence Engineer to design and build advanced conversational and audio AI experiences for smart home applications. You will be responsible for optimizing real-time interactions and deploying AI services at scale.

This role requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a similar field, along with extensive experience in software development, especially with audio and conversational AI systems, and strong Python skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in software development, applied science, or ML engineering for Bachelor's.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in software development, applied science, or ML engineering for Master's.
• Strong Python software engineering skills are essential.
• Experience with developing real-time audio and conversational AI systems.
• Experience in production application integration.

Responsibilities

• Design and build conversational and audio AI experiences.
• Optimize real-time interaction performance.
• Build evaluation frameworks for conversational quality.
• Integrate audio intelligence with smart-home context.
• Deploy and monitor production AI services at scale.

Skills

Speech-to-text

Text-to-speech

Audio understanding

Conversational AI systems

Python

LLMs

Multimodal models

Git

CI/CD

Cloud AI services

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI/ML, or a related technical field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

AWS

Job description

NRG Energy is looking for a Sr Audio Intelligence Engineer to design and build advanced conversational and audio AI experiences for smart home applications. You will be responsible for optimizing real-time interactions and deploying AI services at scale.

This role requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a similar field, along with extensive experience in software development, especially with audio and conversational AI systems, and strong Python skills.