Full-Time

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Updated on 8/1/2026

Zencastr

Zencastr

51-200 employees

Cloud-based platform for podcast production

No salary listed

New York, NY, USA

Remote

Category
AI & Machine Learning (1)
Required Skills
Scikit-learn
Kubernetes
Python
Software Testing
TensorFlow
Neural Networks
PyTorch
SQL
Machine Learning
Docker
Microservices
AWS
MongoDB
REST APIs
DevOps
Google Cloud Platform

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Requirements
  • A postgraduate degree in Machine Learning, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.
  • At least 5 years of experience with Python.
  • At least 3 years of experience in machine learning research, with a focus on speech.
  • At least 3 years of experience training or deploying neural networks.
  • Significant experience with machine learning libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, and scikit-learn.
  • Experience building and operating production-ready machine learning systems.
  • Ability to lead the design and implementation of major software components, systems, and features.
  • Ability to quickly build model prototypes.
  • Experience with cloud technologies such as Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Modal.
  • Ability to drive projects and build positive relationships with partners and colleagues to solve multifaceted efforts from start to finish with minimal mentorship and process.
Responsibilities
  • Design, research, and develop state-of-the-art machine learning applications and algorithms to improve the podcast creation and listening experience.
  • Collaborate with engineering partners and colleagues in large multifunctional efforts to build new product features that advise and enrich Zencastr's various machine learning services.
  • Drive audio and text capabilities within the machine learning team.
  • Work with specialists in signal processing.
Desired Qualifications
  • Publications in peer-reviewed journals from a related field.
  • Experience with modern speech processing frameworks.
  • Good DevOps experience.
  • Advanced digital signal processing experience.
  • MongoDB or SQL experience.
  • Experience with unit, integration, and load testing.
  • Experience building application programming interfaces.
  • Experience building, implementing, and clustering Docker containers.
  • Experience with container orchestration technology such as Kubernetes.

Zencastr provides a subscription-based platform for high-quality audio and video production aimed at podcasters, marketers, educators, and content creators. It lets users record, edit, and distribute content through a single interface, with features like AI editing, AI clipping for viral content, deep analytics, and monetization tools. The product works by offering tiered plans that unlock advanced capabilities, allowing users to capture professional-quality recordings, automatically edit them, analyze performance, and distribute to audiences. Zencastr differentiates itself through a comprehensive, user-friendly suite that combines recording, editing, analytics, and monetization in one service, catering to a wide range of creators—from beginners to professionals. Its goal is to simplify the content creation process and help creators produce engaging content that reaches and monetizes audiences.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$4.6M

Headquarters

Salt Lake City, Utah

Founded

2014

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Mobile recording lowers friction for creators producing content on the move.
  • End-to-end publishing reduces tool switching and improves retention across the release workflow.
  • 4K video, team plans, and AI clipping strengthen its appeal for video-first podcasts.

What critics are saying

  • Desktop-first workflows still dominate, limiting adoption among creators who prefer browsers.
  • Competitors can undercut pricing as video podcasting becomes a crowded feature set.
  • Bandwidth-heavy 4K recording increases failure risk during peak sessions and hurts trust.

What makes Zencastr unique

  • Zencastr targets podcasters with local, high-quality audio and video recording since 2016.
  • Its workflow spans recording, editing, hosting, distribution, and monetization in one platform.
  • Paid plans add AI clipping, analytics, and team collaboration for creators and brands.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Paid Vacation

Remote Work Options

Company Equity

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

7%

1 year growth

-1%

2 year growth

-6%
Podnews
Sep 4th, 2023
Ambassador Ads change on Spotify

Remote recording tool Zencastr has launched an iOS app for paid customers.

MarTech Series
Aug 22nd, 2022
Zencastr Announces General Availability Of The First End-To-End Video Podcasting Platform

Zencastr announces the general availability of the first end-to-end video podcast platform for creators and brands globally. New features include remote HD 4k video recording, team plans, distribution, monetization and more

Employee Benefit News
May 17th, 2022
Sesh Inc. partners with BigCommerce

Virtual mental health resource Sesh has partnered with global companies BigCommerce, Bravado.co, Zencastr and Virtasant to provide Ukraine-based employees with full access to the platform’s virtual mental health group support sessions free of charge, according to the company.

Zencastr
Jun 17th, 2021
Zencastr launches options in the Video post-production system

The quality and speed with which Zencastr can process audio and video mixes have taken significant strides forward, and Zencastr has added new options in the Video post-production system, detailed below.