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Propio

Audio AI Engineer

Propio, Overland Park, Kansas, United States, 66213

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Description

Propio is on a mission to make communication accessible to everyone. As a leader in real-time interpretation and multilingual language services, we connect people with the information they need across language, culture, and modality. We’re committed to building AI-powered tools to enhance interpreter workflows, automate multilingual insights, and scale communication quality across industries.

We are hiring an

Audio AI Engineer

that will develop and optimize end-to-end systems that enable real-time, high-fidelity speech-to-speech interpretation at Propio. This role focuses on seamlessly connecting speech recognition, translation, and synthesis technologies to create natural, low-latency interpretation experiences.

Key Responsibilities

Design and optimize end-to-end Speech-to-Speech pipelines that integrate ASR, translation, and TTS with minimal latency

Build bidirectional interpretation systems that handle turn-taking, speaker identification, and context preservation across language boundaries

Collaborate with the Audio/Speech Engineer to optimize latency, quality, and robustness of speech components in the full pipeline

Work with the Staff ML Engineer to design efficient inference architectures and deployment strategies for real-time streaming systems

Develop streaming ASR and TTS systems capable of handling continuous, overlapping speech in interpretation scenarios

Benchmark and optimize latency across all pipeline stages (speech capture, recognition, translation, synthesis)

Integrate speaker diarization, acoustic environment adaptation, and speech enhancement into interpretation workflows

Partner with linguists and product teams to validate interpretation quality and gather domain-specific feedback

Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

3+ years of experience in speech processing, audio engineering, or conversational AI systems

Deep expertise in ASR, TTS, and streaming audio architectures

Proficiency in Python, ML frameworks, and experience with real-time signal processing

Experience building low-latency production systems and optimizing for inference performance

Strong understanding of interpretation workflows, multilingual challenges, and speech quality metrics

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building speech-to-text pipelines or hybrid ASR + LLM systems

Familiarity with real-time audio processing or latency-sensitive applications

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