Audio Engineer
Position: Contract – Remote (Austin, TX) TEKsystems. The role focuses on enhancing audio quality and enabling voice biometrics at scale.
Job Description
Our client is a leading provider of advanced analytics solutions for the public safety sector. They process and analyze large volumes of recorded audio data to support investigations and improve operational efficiency. This role focuses on enhancing audio quality and enabling voice biometrics at scale. Measuring your success will be results‑driven—quality of audio improvements and success in enabling voice biometrics.
Job Responsibilities
- Design and build solutions to improve audio quality of call recordings to enable accurate voice biometrics, at scale.
- Apply DSP techniques for noise reduction, voice activity detection, and channel separation.
- Develop and integrate audio processing scripts into scalable data pipelines.
- Collaborate with the ML team to optimize audio for embedding generation.
Technical Environment
- AWS; ffmpeg; Amazon Transcribe.
- Audio formats: MP3, FLAC; stereo and mono recordings.
- Data pipelines integrated with AWS services for transcription and analytics.
Work Environment
- Remote‑first team with flexible hours (core overlap 11 AM – 5 PM ET).
- Collaborative, blame‑free culture with strong support for innovation.
Skills & Qualifications
- Digital Signal Processing (DSP) & Applied Acoustics.
- Deep understanding of audio codecs, compression artifacts, bitrates, and sampling theory.
- Noise reduction, voice activity detection (VAD), preamble trimming, channel separation at scale.
- Speaker diarization & voice printing; experience with clustering, similarity measures, and handling overlapping speech.
- Command‑line audio processing & shell scripting; skilled in tools such as ffmpeg, sox, aubio, and integrating scripts into data pipelines.
- Prior experience building scalable, high‑volume audio processing solutions.
- Collaborative and adaptable problem‑solver comfortable working in remote, distributed environments.
- Strong documentation and reproducibility mindset.
- Experience with Python DSP/ML libraries (librosa, pyannote, torchaudio).
- Familiarity with cloud‑based audio processing and integration.
Compensation and Benefits
Pay range: $50.00 – $65.00 per hour. (Contract position). Benefits apply only to eligible employees; subject to change. Benefits may include:
- Medical, dental & vision.
- Critical illness, accident, and hospital.
- 401(k) retirement plan – pre‑tax and Roth post‑tax contributions.
- Life insurance (voluntary life & AD&D for employee and dependents).
- Short‑ and long‑term disability.
- Health Spending Account (HSA).
- Transportation benefits.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Time off / leave (PTO, vacation or sick leave).
Location
Workplace type: Fully remote. Contract location: Austin, TX.
Experience Level
Entry Level
Application Deadline
Position anticipated to close on Dec 3, 2025.
Equal Opportunity Statement
TEKsystems is an equal‑opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any characteristic protected by law.