Founding Audio ML Engineer

Location: Los Angeles, CA (onsite)

Company: Soundryx, Inc. As our Founding Audio ML Engineer, you’ll bridge the gap between raw audio signals and deployable neural network models. You’ll own the audio ML pipeline end-to-end and ensure our models perform reliably on real-world hardware.

What You’ll Do: Visualize audio data to uncover features, biases, and collection issues. Train and evaluate models on audio waveforms and derived features. Improve datasets, features, and architectures for robust on-device performance. Quantize, optimize, and deploy models to our embedded sensor hardware. What You’ve Done Hands-on experience with audio DSP and visualization tools (Python, MATLAB, etc.). Trained neural networks, ideally on image or audio data. Written signal processing code in C++ or Rust.

Nice-to-have: Implemented beamforming algorithms.

Additional Requirements: FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate, or willingness and ability to obtain shortly after joining (we’ll reimburse and train).Why Join Laran First chair, big canvas: You’ll help push audio signal processing to new heights. Field-proven impact: Your models will listen to the whole world for danger. Ownership: Competitive salary + meaningful early equity. Compensation

Salary: $130,000–$180,000

Equity: 2% - 4% of the fully-diluted cap table for Soundryx, Inc. as calculated on offer grant date. The grant is offered as options on a standard four-year vesting schedule with a one-year cliff. Export Control (ITAR-Eligibility) Caution While Laran’s commercial product is designed for broad exportability, this role may involve access to export-controlled technical data. Under US regulations, access is limited toUS personsA.US Persons Include US citizens Lawful permanent residents (Green Card holders) Individuals granted asylum in the United States Individuals admitted to the United States as refugees US non-citizen nationals (e.g., born in American Samoa)BLaran is an equal opportunity employer. Some positions are limited to US Persons under export control laws. Footnotes 22 C.F.R. 120.62 — ITAR definition of “US person” (eCFR) 8 U.S.C. 1408 — “Nationals but not citizens of the United States at birth”