AI Researcher (Voice)
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 160 - 250
Posted on:
12 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Us
Imagine a therapist anyone can afford. A personal trainer that adapts to your schedule. A fleet of medical assistants that can give every patient the attention they need. With Tavus individuals enterprises and developers can all build AI Humans to connect understand and act with empathy at scale.
Were a Series A company backed by world-class investors including Sequoia Capital Y Combinator and Scale Venture Partners.
Be part of shaping a future where humans and machines truly understand each other.
The Role
Were looking for a Senior Researcher to join our core AI team. Our ideal partner-in-crime works well in startup environments is comfortable prioritizing for themselves and is always down to take calculated risks. Were moving fast and not looking for people to come along for the ride - were looking for people to pave the path.
Your Mission
Lead research efforts on generative video and audio models (ex:
text-to-speech speech-to-speech audio-to-expression and other speech
and multimodal AI topics)Work with the Applied ML team to help productionize our research
Stay relevant with the latest advancements (and help us create the latest
advancements!)
Requirements
Have proven experience with flow matching diffusion models auto regressive
networks in the audio domain.Have experience training deep learning models: from medium-sized to large
models.Have experience building streaming text-to-speech models or speech-to-speech
modelsHave strong foundations in audio modeling and demonstrated ability to innovate
rapidly through prototyping.Know state-of-the-art architectures in representation learning: audio or image
domain face animation (in addition to having a deep understanding of the direct
field of expertise above)Have excellent programming skills and be fluent in PyTorch
Show evidence of original research with publications in top-tier or solid
second-tier venues (e.g. CVPR NeurIPS BMVC or equivalent).Be excited about building lifelike expressive avatars for real-time applications.
Additionally having some of the following experiences may help you be successful in this position:
Skills in 3D graphics Gaussian splatting
Other additional experience with generative models
PhD or equivalent experience preferred
Experience leading research teams
Knowledge of best practices in Software Development
Please note that this position is preferably hybrid in San Francisco and we offer relocation. However we are open to remote candidates as well.
Benefits & Culture
When you join Tavus youre joining a diverse and supportive team. Our work is driven by our people and our success is shared by all. This position has a flexible work schedule unlimited PTO competitive healthcare and gear stipends as well as plenty of fun. At the end of the day we want Tavus to be a place for you to learn directly drive impact and work with a team you love.
To learn more about our team culture and benefits check out our hiring page.
Tavus is growing fast and wed like you to grow with us. If youre excited to get your hands dirty and help make machines more human drop your resume and well be in touch.
We are not looking for cultural fits we are looking for culture creators. Diversity is what drives our success its at the core of how we hire communicate and work. We are inclusive to all and combine our diverse backgrounds skill sets and perspectives to build the best experiences for our clients.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Intelligence Community Experience
- Python
- Spss
- Microsoft Word
- R
- Regression Analysis
- Windows
- Stata
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Research Experience
- Data Modeling
- Writing Skills
About Company
Tavus is the leading AI video research company that enables product development teams to build white-labeled digital twin experiences with easy-to-use APIs.
