
Award-winning sound separation. Make audio interactive, editable, and customizable. AudioShake is a powerful AI that can take a recording from any point in time and deconstruct it into its component parts--from music instrument stems through to separate dialogue, music, and effect tracks. Creating stems opens up creative opportunities to make music and other audio more interactive, accessible, and profitable. - Winner of TIME Best Inventions - Winner of the Sony Demixing Challenge - Winner of the Music Tectonics and Wallifornia Startup Pitch Contests - Named by Business Insider as one of 14 Innovative Music Tech Startups

Award-winning sound separation. Make audio interactive, editable, and customizable. AudioShake is a powerful AI that can take a recording from any point in time and deconstruct it into its component parts--from music instrument stems through to separate dialogue, music, and effect tracks. Creating stems opens up creative opportunities to make music and other audio more interactive, accessible, and profitable. - Winner of TIME Best Inventions - Winner of the Sony Demixing Challenge - Winner of the Music Tectonics and Wallifornia Startup Pitch Contests - Named by Business Insider as one of 14 Innovative Music Tech Startups
What they do: AI-powered sound separation that splits recordings into stems (vocals, instruments, dialogue, effects).
Key product: Real-time Sound Separation SDK for iOS/macOS, Android, Windows, and Linux.
Funding: $14M Series A (Oct 1, 2025); $2.7M seed (May 9, 2023).
Founders: Jessica Powell (co-founder, former Google VP) and Luke Miner (co-founder, former head of data science at Plaid).
Notable recognition: TIME Best Inventions; winner of the Sony Demixing Challenge; Music Tectonics and Wallifornia pitch contest wins.
Audio separation and editing: extracting clean stems and isolating overlapping voices for creative, broadcast, and media workflows.
Software Development
$2.7M
Seed included participation from Precursor Ventures, Side Door Ventures, and a group of music-industry and operator angels.
$14M
Series A included participation from Thomson Reuters Ventures, Origin Ventures, Background Capital, returning investors Indicator Ventures and Precursor Ventures; angels named include Bradley Horowitz and Charlie Songhurst.
“Series A led by Shine Capital with participation from Thomson Reuters Ventures, Origin Ventures, Background Capital, Indicator Ventures, and Precursor Ventures; seed led by Indicator Ventures with participation from Precursor Ventures, Side Door Ventures and music-industry angels.”
Member of Technical Staff - Experience
AudioShake is an audio research company that’s helping power the next wave of music, film, and ambient computing experiences by making audio editable, accessible, and useful.
Our state-of-the-art audio processing models enable content publishers, major and indie music labels, application developers, hardware vendors, film studios, broadcasters, sports teams and frontier model developers to leverage best-in-class sound separation and voice/vocal transcription technologies across a wide range of critical audio workflows.
Our team is a mix of A.I. researchers, engineers, and audiophiles, split between North America and Europe. Team members are highly independent, responsible, and collaborative. We strongly believe that great ideas can come from all members and roles on a team, and that everyone contributes uniquely to the company's culture and products.
The Role
We are looking for an experienced UX designer and developer who can work with cross-functional stakeholders to define, develop and evolve the end to end consumer and enterprise experience for the entire AudioShake product portfolio. You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Research and Engineering teams to understand what’s technically possible in the service of surfacing usable and compelling media processing experiences for our customers. The ideal candidate will have a blend of strong design and technical skills.
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Benefits
Above all, we treat people like humans, not work units. We want you to love your job, but also have the time and energy to have a life outside it.
Hiring Location:
This role is hybrid-remote, based in San Francisco, California. We work together three days a week.