Sabi
Lead Audio Engineer
$300K–$400K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted May 7, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of audio engineering; at least one shipped consumer product with end-to-end ownership of a multi-microphone voice system.
About the job
Own the end-to-end audio system for Sabi’s EEG/BCI wearable, from microphone array and real-time DSP through wake-word detection and spatial speaker output, and help ship the product.
What you'll do
- Lead audio architecture, component selection and benchmarking, DSP development, and acoustic/electrical integration.
- Validate microphone-array performance, wake-word experience, and audio-chain reliability in realistic use conditions.
- Coordinate audio work with internal teams and external engineering partners; help build the audio team and cloud-side voice processing capability.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of audio engineering and at least one shipped consumer product involving end-to-end ownership of a multi-microphone voice system.
- Deep voice DSP expertise, including beamforming, AEC, noise suppression, and direction-of-arrival estimation.
- Shipped wake-word or always-on voice activation at consumer scale, including data collection and metric tuning.
- Real-time DSP pipeline design on constrained MCUs; strong acoustic engineering and audio-component selection and benchmarking experience.
Nice to have
- Deploying audio DSP, wake-word, or speech models on dedicated low-power AI accelerators; experience with leading on-device wake-word engines.
- Multi-channel audio DSPs, Class-D amplifier design, spatial audio rendering, or cloud STT pipelines and voice UX latency budgets.
Pay
$300K – $400K USD base salary
Tools
DSP, AEC, MCUs, Class-D amplifiers, HRTF, STT
AI focus
The role develops on-device audio and wake-word processing for an AI companion wearable and helps build cloud-side voice processing capability.
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