{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"6fb5eee49ca2a41a9df01cbd","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/6fb5eee49ca2a41a9df01cbd","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/6fb5eee49ca2a41a9df01cbd","title":"Sr Software Engineer, Audio Intelligence","description":"Welcome to the intersection of energy and home services. At NRG, we’re all about propelling the next generation of leaders forward. We are driven by our passion to create a smarter, cleaner and more connected future. We deliver innovative solutions that make our customers’ lives easier—helping them power, protect, and intelligently manage their homes and businesses. To do this, we need creative and talented people to join our company.\n\nWe offer a dynamic work environment and a unified and inclusive culture. NRG fosters a strong sense of belonging that leads to better collaboration and business performance. Our company programs are designed to help employees develop the skills they need for success now and in the future. In everything we do, we aim to champion our employees and bring value to our customers, investors and society.\n\nMore information is available at www.nrg.com. Connect with NRG on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and X.\n\nAbout This Role\n\nWe are 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. In this role, you will be responsible to:\n\nDesign and build conversational and audio AI experiences using STT, TTS, LLMs, audio understanding, and multimodal context.\nOptimize latency, reliability, privacy, grounding, and user experience for real-time interactions.\nBuild evaluation frameworks for conversational quality, task completion, audio understanding, customer satisfaction, and safety.\nIntegrate audio intelligence with agentic tool use, memory, personalization, and smart-home context.\nEvaluate and benchmark emerging speech, audio, and multimodal AI technologies.\nDeploy and monitor production audio and conversational AI services at scale.\n\nRequired Qualifications:\n\nBachelor’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\nMaster’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\nExperience with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, audio understanding, or conversational AI systems\nStrong Python software engineering skills\nExperience integrating LLMs or multimodal models into production applications\nFamiliarity with prompt engineering, evaluation, conversation design, latency optimization, and cloud AI services\nExperience with Git, CI/CD, production monitoring, and cross-functional product collaboration\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\n\nExperience with wake word, streaming audio, real-time inference, ASR/NLU frameworks, or ambient sound classification\nExperience building consumer-facing voice, assistant, smart-home, or conversational products\nFamiliarity with edge AI, embedded devices, IoT, Linux-based systems, or hybrid edge/cloud architectures\nExperience with privacy-aware audio systems, grounding, safety, and customer-trust mechanisms\nExperience with Docker, Kubernetes, GCP/AWS, or scalable AI service deployment\n\nThe base salary range for this position is: $150K to $ 185K. The base salary range above represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of the total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonus, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition the position may be eligible to participate in the benefits program which include, but are not limited to, medical, vision, dental, 401K, and flexible spending accounts.\n\nPosition requires in-office presence in Seattle, WA on a hybrid schedule for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday with a work from home day on Friday. The position will start remote and then will move into the hybrid schedule.\n\nNRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Protected Veteran Status/Disability. 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At NRG, we’re all about propelling the next generation of leaders forward. We are driven by our passion to create a smarter, cleaner and more connected future. We deliver innovative solutions that make our customers’ lives easier—helping them power, protect, and intelligently manage their homes and businesses. To do this, we need creative and talented people to join our company.\n\nWe offer a dynamic work environment and a unified and inclusive culture. NRG fosters a strong sense of belonging that leads to better collaboration and business performance. Our company programs are designed to help employees develop the skills they need for success now and in the future. In everything we do, we aim to champion our employees and bring value to our customers, investors and society.\n\nMore information is available at www.nrg.com. Connect with NRG on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and X.\n\nAbout This Role\n\nWe are 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. In this role, you will be responsible to:\n\nDesign and build conversational and audio AI experiences using STT, TTS, LLMs, audio understanding, and multimodal context.\nOptimize latency, reliability, privacy, grounding, and user experience for real-time interactions.\nBuild evaluation frameworks for conversational quality, task completion, audio understanding, customer satisfaction, and safety.\nIntegrate audio intelligence with agentic tool use, memory, personalization, and smart-home context.\nEvaluate and benchmark emerging speech, audio, and multimodal AI technologies.\nDeploy and monitor production audio and conversational AI services at scale.\n\nRequired Qualifications:\n\nBachelor’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\nMaster’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\nExperience with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, audio understanding, or conversational AI systems\nStrong Python software engineering skills\nExperience integrating LLMs or multimodal models into production applications\nFamiliarity with prompt engineering, evaluation, conversation design, latency optimization, and cloud AI services\nExperience with Git, CI/CD, production monitoring, and cross-functional product collaboration\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\n\nExperience with wake word, streaming audio, real-time inference, ASR/NLU frameworks, or ambient sound classification\nExperience building consumer-facing voice, assistant, smart-home, or conversational products\nFamiliarity with edge AI, embedded devices, IoT, Linux-based systems, or hybrid edge/cloud architectures\nExperience with privacy-aware audio systems, grounding, safety, and customer-trust mechanisms\nExperience with Docker, Kubernetes, GCP/AWS, or scalable AI service deployment\n\nThe base salary range for this position is: $150K to $ 185K. The base salary range above represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of the total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonus, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition the position may be eligible to participate in the benefits program which include, but are not limited to, medical, vision, dental, 401K, and flexible spending accounts.\n\nPosition requires in-office presence in Seattle, WA on a hybrid schedule for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday with a work from home day on Friday. The position will start remote and then will move into the hybrid schedule.\n\nNRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. 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