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# Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Auto+ at SoundHound AI

- **Company:** SoundHound AI
- **Location:** Beijing, China
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/soundhound/am9icG9zdDq0sDqIoFC2Hjc3_NMip-SF

## Job description

The Opportunity SoundHound AI believes every person should be able to interact naturally with the products around them–by simply talking. With a global reach spanning two dozen languages, we build Voice AI products with conversational intelligence for cars, restaurant ordering, and more, allowing our customers to extend their brand in new and meaningful ways. We are looking for a senior software engineer to join our core speech technology team. You will collaborate with engineers, researchers and voice AI practitioners in the field to help enable various voice AI products for customers across different industries using SoundHound state-of-the-art ASR technologies. You will have opportunities to apply your knowledge and experience in both software engineering and machine learning to solve real-world voice AI problems and deliver values directly to SoundHound customers. Please note: the initial stage of the interview process entails an online evaluation, followed by a recruiter screening.

## What You'll Do

- Train, tune and test state-of-the-art ASR models for different languages for all SoundHound voice AI products using machine learning and deep learning techniques
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of ASR technologies into SoundHound products
- Run benchmarks to monitor performance of ASR solutions and optimize ASR models for accuracy, efficiency and scalability across various platforms and applications
- Provide customized ASR solutions to meet any customer-specific or product-specific ASR challenges
- Triage and troubleshoot customer-related ASR issues and provide timely solutions
- Work independently and lead technical initiatives to plan, design and create new tools and features to enhance SoundHound ASR technologies
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members and contribute to knowledge sharing within the organization

## What You'll Bring

- You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or other relevant disciplines with 8 years of full-time work experience, or a Master’s degree with 6 years of full-time work experience
- You have experience with automatic speech recognition, keyword detection or natural language understanding
- You have good understanding of deep learning and neural networks fundamentals, and are proficient in deep learning frameworks
- You are proficient in writing production-level Python code
- You have experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and other containerization technologies in cloud service environment
- You have experience mentoring junior engineers and leading technical initiatives We’d be incredibly excited if you have experience with Kaldi, PyTorch and TensorFlow, have worked on projects enabling on-device models using TensorFlow Lite, have knowledge of the end-to-end ASR pipeline, have experience developing, tuning, deploying and maintaining ASR models, have knowledge of NLP techniques related to ASR, and have experience working with customers. Proficiency in writing production-level C++ code is also a plus! Workplace & Compensation This role is available in China. Our recruiting team will provide a total compensation range based on location and years of experience.

## About SoundHound AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: SoundHound AI builds voice-native conversational AI agents and platforms that automate operations, service, and commerce across industries like restaurants, automotive, finance, healthcare, and retail.
- **Entity Type**: Public (Nasdaq: SOUN)
- **Headquarters**: Santa Clara, California, United States (with presence in France, Japan, China, and 27 countries total)
- **Founded**: 2005 (as Melodis; rebranded to SoundHound Inc. in 2010 and SoundHound AI in 2022)
- **Founders**: Majid Emami (co-founder) and Keyvan Mohajer (co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Voice AI, Conversational AI Agents, Generative AI, Enterprise Software, Restaurant Technology, Automotive Tech, Healthcare AI
- **Target customers**: B2B / Enterprise — restaurants (drive-thru and ordering), automotive OEMs and partners, financial services, healthcare providers, retail, IT service desks, and HR organizations
- **Mission or purpose**: "Voice-enable the world with conversational intelligence" — creating AI agents "that run operations, service, and commerce for brands in the real world" and exceed human capabilities

## Products & Services
- **OASYS Platform**: A voice-native conversational AI platform for building and deploying reliable AI agents across operations, service, and commerce
- **Smart Ordering**: AI agents that take and process orders, automate drive-thrus, offer add-ons, and support restaurant staff
- **Dynamic Drive-Thru**: AI-powered drive-thru ordering automation for quick-service restaurants
- **Smart Answering**: AI-driven call handling and appointment-management agents for businesses
- **Amelia Platform**: Enterprise AI agent platform (acquired in 2024) that powers AI agents for large enterprise brands across verticals
- **SoundHound Chat AI**: Voice assistant combining SoundHound's conversational AI with leading generative AI platforms for the next generation of voice assistants
- **Autonomics**: Operations platform that automates IT service desk tasks and HR processes (password resets, troubleshooting, account management, etc.)
- **Industry-specific agents**: HIPAA-compliant healthcare agents integrated with Epic; secure banking agents for accounts, loans, fraud reporting; automotive in-car assistants; telecom outage alerting; retail shopping and returns agents

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed in the sources reviewed; as a publicly traded company, current market value fluctuates daily — check latest SOUN quotes ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundHound_AI), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/soundhoundai))
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of **$168.9M**; **$721M** in total funding raised across 12 rounds (pre/post IPO); **603 employees** (+30.7% YoY, +182 headcount)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Mercedes-Benz, Motorola, PSA Auto, Deutsche Telekom, Harman, VIZIO, Snap Inc., Mastercard, and Epic (healthcare EHR integration) ([SoundHound About](https://www.soundhound.com/about))
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Automates **10 billion+ conversations annually** and holds **400+ patents**
  - Named a **Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms**
  - Acquired **Synq3 Restaurant Solutions** (2024), creating an AI market leader with **10,000+ live restaurant locations**
  - Acquired **Amelia** (2024), expanding enterprise conversational AI scale and reach
  - Workforce distributed across 27 countries including US, India, Canada, Germany, and France

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary technology**: Speech-to-Meaning® and Deep Meaning Understanding® enable speed and accuracy that the company says surpasses Big Tech voice AI
- **Patented IP moat**: 400+ patents and 20+ years of specialist voice AI R&D
- **Independent platform**: Unlike competitors tied to one big-tech stack, SoundHound offers a neutral voice-native AI platform (OASYS) with the company's own Agentic+ framework
- **Industry depth**: Deep vertical playbooks in restaurants (10,000+ live locations), automotive, healthcare (Epic/HIPAA), and finance
- **Scale and track record**: Billions of annual interactions give unique data and reliability signals across real-world deployments

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale AI agents on OASYS**: Driving the new voice-native conversational AI platform as the core engine for agent deployment
- **Vertical expansion**: Deepening healthcare (Epic-integrated, HIPAA-compliant agents), finance, retail, telecom, IT service desk, and HR offerings
- **Acquisition-led growth**: Leveraging Synq3 (restaurants) and Amelia (enterprise) to expand into new verticals and large enterprise brands
- **Generative AI integration**: Continuing to blend SoundHound Chat AI with leading generative AI models to create next-gen assistants
- **Globalization**: Expanding across automotive OEM partnerships in Japan/China and multilingual deployments (25+ languages)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: The company emphasizes a collaborative, diverse environment with "openness, curiosity, collaboration, innovation, and humility" — hiring across backgrounds, cultures, ethnicities, genders, and philosophies ([SoundHound Careers](https://www.soundhound.com/careers/))
- **Mission-driven work**: Teammates contribute to pioneering AI agent technology and "voice-enabling the world" with 10B+ interactions annually
- **Perks**: Competitive salary and benefits designed to support "a healthy work-life balance"
- **Global footprint**: Offices in Santa Clara (HQ) with collaboration across the globe; open roles include Partner Engineer (Voice AI), Technical Program Manager (Automotive), and AI Agent engineering positions in the US, Japan, and China
- **Growth environment**: Joining a high-growth public company with +30.7% headcount growth YoY, recent major acquisitions, and a leadership position in a fast-moving AI category

## Sources
1. [SoundHound.com](https://www.soundhound.com/)
2. [SoundHound Careers](https://www.soundhound.com/careers/)
3. [SoundHound About](https://www.soundhound.com/about)
4. [LinkedIn — SoundHound AI](https://www.linkedin.com/company/soundhoundai)
5. [Wikipedia — SoundHound AI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundHound_AI)

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