Meadow AI is hiring: Senior Applied AI Scientist (Audio) in Seattle

Overview Meadow AI builds AI-powered tools that help businesses run more efficiently. We turn everyday operations into real-time, actionable insights that improve guest experience and revenue. We’re seed-stage with paying customers and a strong pipeline, and we’re expanding our capabilities in audio understanding . The role We’re looking for a Senior Applied AI Scientist with deep experience in ASR and audio understanding. You’ll lead end-to-end audio ML work: from hardware to data pipeline to deployment. You’ll also explore how LLMs can reason over transcripts and audio-derived events. This is a hands-on, production-oriented role. What you’ll do Fine-tune ASR systems for noisy, far-field, multi-speaker environments. Implement diarization, VAD, robust timestamping. Combine transcripts with LLMs for summarization and analytics. Deploy models to production. What you’ll bring 5+ years (or equivalent) working on speech/audio ML in production. Strong Python; comfort with common audio/ML tooling. Practical experience with diarization, VAD, beam search, and noise-robust training. Familiarity using LLMs on transcripts. Nice to have Multilingual ASR or code-switching experience. Domain adaptation for far-field microphones, drive-thru, or retail/hospitality acoustics. Basic SQL and comfort collaborating with backend engineers. Work location Remote-friendly across U.S. time zones. We’re currently unable to provide visa sponsorship. Compensation Salary range: $90,000–$170,000, depending on experience, plus an equity package. Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Full-time Job function Engineering and Information Technology Industries Technology, Information and Internet We are not including extraneous role listings or site-wide notices. #J-18808-Ljbffr