Senior Audio Intelligence Engineer - Real-Time Conversations

NRG; Beaverton (OR); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Vision benefits

Dental benefits

401K

Flexible spending accounts

Job summary

NRG Energy in Seattle is seeking a Sr Audio Intelligence Engineer to build conversational and audio AI experiences for smart homes. You will design real-time speech and audio understanding systems, optimize latency, and deploy AI services at scale across devices and cloud environments.

The role requires strong Python, experience with LLMs/multimodal models, and familiarity with edge/cloud architectures. Hybrid in-office presence is required, with a remote start and phased move to Seattle office.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI/ML, or a related technical field, and 5+ years of professional experience in software development, applied science, or ML engineering; or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI/ML, or a related technical field, and 2+ years of professional experience in software development, applied science, or ML engineering.
• Experience with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, audio understanding, or conversational AI systems.
• Strong Python software engineering skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and build conversational and audio AI experiences using STT, TTS, LLMs, audio understanding, and multimodal context.
• Optimize latency, reliability, privacy, grounding, and user experience for real-time interactions.
• Build evaluation frameworks for conversational quality, task completion, audio understanding, customer satisfaction, 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.

Skills

Python

Speech-to-text

LLMs

Audio understanding

Multimodal models

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud services

Prompt engineering

Education

Bachelor's in CS/AI/related

Master's in CS/AI/related

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP/AWS

Git

CI/CD

Job description

NRG Energy in Seattle is seeking a Sr Audio Intelligence Engineer to build conversational and audio AI experiences for smart homes. You will design real-time speech and audio understanding systems, optimize latency, and deploy AI services at scale across devices and cloud environments.

The role requires strong Python, experience with LLMs/multimodal models, and familiarity with edge/cloud architectures. Hybrid in-office presence is required, with a remote start and phased move to Seattle office.