Staff Speech Scientist

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 12 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Description

Want to build speech AI that actually sounds human

Youll be joining a well-funded speech AI startup with strong customer traction. Theyre building ultra-realistic voice technology that handles natural laughter breathing seamless language switching and accurate pronunciation across languages and accents.

As a Staff Research Engineer youll work hands-on to expand their foundation models and push the boundaries of whats possible in speech AI: exploring multilingual capabilities long-context generation full-duplex modeling for natural conversations with interruptions and novel architectures that balance speed with control.

What youll do

Conduct research to advance their core speech models and extend product capabilities
Develop and experiment with new model architectures and training approaches
Work on large-scale model training and data systems
Collaborate with the team to take research from concept to deployed systems

What youll bring

3 years of experience in speech synthesis audio generation or generative modeling
Experience with audio generation using LLMs
Solid background in modern language model architectures
Proven ability to ship research into production systems
Experience training large-scale models

Nice to have

Published research in speech or generative modeling
Experience with real-time speech systems or multimodal models

Ideally in SF but can also consider remote worldwide. Comp is up to $250K base DOE plus equity.

Required Experience:

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Job DescriptionWant to build speech AI that actually sounds humanYoull be joining a well-funded speech AI startup with strong customer traction. Theyre building ultra-realistic voice technology that handles natural laughter breathing seamless language switching and accurate pronunciation across lang...