Principal Engineer AI/ML - Audio Reasoning (Lorenz Labs)

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Role - Principal Engineer AI/ML - Audio Reasoning (Lorenz Labs)

About Analog Devices & Lorenz Labs

Analog Devices (NASDAQ: ADI) is a global leader in semiconductors that bridge the physical and digital worlds. Our mission is to enable breakthroughs at the Intelligent Edge-where sensors, compute, and AI converge to transform industries from mobility to healthcare.

Lorenz Labs, ADI's advanced AI engineering group within Edge AI, is pioneering the frontier of Physical Intelligence-developing foundation models and agentic systems that can reason about the physical world. We are building the next generation of models that go beyond language and vision, into time, signals, and embodied experience. Our long-term ambition is the realization of an Artificial Engineer: an AI capable of understanding, simulating, and designing electro-physical systems with human-like intuition-complemented by the development of highly optimized embedded models for Edge AI.

Location: San Jose, CA or Boston, MA (Hybrid)

Summary

We're looking for a Principal level ML/AI Audio & Acoustics Engineer to build ultra low-latency audio and speech enhancement models for next-generation ANC hearables. You'll work with ML, acoustics, and DSP experts to advance audio capture, hearing enhancement, and real-world device performance.

What you'll do:

• Build and evaluate deep learning models for speech enhancement, noise suppression, separation, dereverberation, and classification.
• Support data collection, curation, preprocessing, and augmentation.
• Prototype models in Python (PyTorch/TensorFlow) and validate against audio datasets.
• Optimize models for embedded/mobile deployment (quantization, pruning, compression).
• Partner with acoustics engineers to integrate ML with microphones, speakers, and arrays.
• Assist with lab measurements, testing, and performance benchmarking.
• Document model design decisions and results.

What you bring:

• PhD or research-heavy background
• First-author publications in audio ML / audio-language modeling
• Experience in research labs or audio industry
• Interdisciplinary background across EE, CS, signal processing, and ML

Domain Experience (Audio AI / Audio Reasoning)

• Audio foundation models
• Generative audio
• Audio tokenization & representation learning
• Multimodal transformers
• Audio-language/text alignment
• Audio models that reason with language models
• Experience with speech enhancement, separation, or audio ML tasks.
• Experience with on-device/edge ML (TinyML, quantization).
• Data labeling/augmentation or large-scale training pipeline experience.
• Strong C/C++ for deployment.
• Solid grounding in traditional acoustics & audio DSP

Why You'll Love Working at ADI
At Analog Devices, you'll be part of a collaborative and innovative team that's shaping the future of technology. We offer a supportive environment focused on professional growth, competitive compensation and benefits, work-life balance, and the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects that make a real impact on the world.
Your expertise will shape the future of technology, and you'll be supported by a culture that values continuous advancement and professional growth. Join us and help create the technologies that bridge the physical and digital worlds, making a tangible difference in how people live, work, and connect.

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Job Req Type: Experienced

Required Travel: Yes, 10% of the time

Shift Type: 1st Shift/Days

The expected wage range for a new hire into this position is $170,775 to $256,163.

• Actual wage offered may vary depending on work location, experience, education, training, external market data, internal pay equity, or other bona fide factors.
• This position qualifies for a discretionary performance-based bonus which is based on personal and company factors.
• This position includes medical, vision and dental coverage, 401k, paid vacation, holidays, and sick time, and other benefits.