Hippocratic AI
Audio Transcription Specialist
Menlo Park, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience in transcription, linguistic annotation, audio quality assurance, or a related field.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Linguistics, Speech and Language Sciences, or a related field.
About the job
Own transcription data quality for speech systems by evaluating provider output, improving QA processes, validating audio pipelines, and analyzing ASR errors.
What you'll do
- Review external-provider transcriptions, provide actionable feedback, and track recurring errors.
- Design and refine QA workflows and guidelines, and validate audio processing and annotation pipelines.
- Analyze production ASR failures and maintain an error taxonomy to guide researchers’ improvements.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Linguistics, Speech and Language Sciences, or a related field.
- Strong listening skills and attention to detail; consistently apply annotation guidelines and use sound judgment in ambiguous cases.
- Strong written communication skills and comfort handling sensitive audio under data privacy requirements.
- Ability to work onsite in the Menlo Park office five days a week.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with ASR systems and evaluation metrics such as word error rate (WER).
- Experience with varied speech conditions or languages, external annotation providers, quality processes, spreadsheets, SQL, scripting, or privacy-sensitive data.
Tools
ASR, word error rate (WER), SQL
AI focus
Improve speech-system and ASR performance by identifying transcription errors, validating training data, and providing researchers with categorized evidence to guide improvements.
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