Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vivint is committed to creating a smarter, cleaner, and more connected future through innovative solutions. The Sr Audio Intelligence Engineer will build conversational and audio AI experiences for smart homes, focusing on real-time speech and audio understanding systems.
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
- 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
- Experience integrating LLMs or multimodal models into production applications
- Familiarity with prompt engineering, evaluation, conversation design, latency optimization, and cloud AI services
- Experience with Git, CI/CD, production monitoring, and cross-functional product collaboration
- Experience with wake word, streaming audio, real-time inference, ASR/NLU frameworks, or ambient sound classification
- Experience building consumer-facing voice, assistant, smart-home, or conversational products
- Familiarity with edge AI, embedded devices, IoT, Linux-based systems, or hybrid edge/cloud architectures
- Experience with privacy-aware audio systems, grounding, safety, and customer-trust mechanisms
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GCP/AWS, or scalable AI service deployment
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Short- and long-term incentives
- Program-specific awards
- Medical
- Vision
- Dental
- 401K
- Flexible spending accounts
Company Overview
Vivint offers an integrated smart home system along with in-home consultation, professional installation, monitoring, and support. It was founded in 1999, and is headquartered in Provo, Utah, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.vivint.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Vivint has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 10 in 2025, 20 in 2024, 19 in 2023, 26 in 2022, 20 in 2021, 24 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.