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Base pay range

$200,000.00/yr - $275,000.00/yr

Role And Responsibilities

As a Founding Audio AI Research Engineer, you will drive our research roadmap—shaping strategy, leading model development, and working closely with researchers to deliver high-quality data. You will:

• Develop and publish benchmarks and research to evaluate audio and speech quality, collaborating with academic and industry partners to advance the field and set new standards.
• Work with researchers across leading AI labs and organizations to build out our data roadmap that will enable future speech models and applications.
• Collaborate with our product and operations team to design and conduct experiments that collect high-quality audio data to fuel your cutting-edge research.
• Set strategic and technical direction around our R&D roadmap based on latest research.
  
  

• Ph.D. or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with a focus on speech or audio.
• Experience with training and evaluating generative audio models.
• A strong research track record with peer-reviewed publications in leading venues related to speech and audio processing (e.g., Interspeech, ICASSP, NeurIPS, ICML).
• Collaborative mindset and experience leading research agendas with product and other teams.
• Experience in dataset design and conducting empirical analysis of audio data distributions, identifying biases or gaps, and proposing strategies for improved dataset design or collection.
• Research-oriented software engineering skills, including fluency with technologies like PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn and Pandas.
  
  

• Leadership experience in a research setting.
• Prior startup experience.
  
  

• Rapid career growth, at one of the fastest growing Series A companies, within a new and booming industry.
• Competitive salary and equity package.
• Flexible PTO policy.
• Top-notch health, dental, and vision coverage with 100% company reimbursement for most plans.
• Paid lunch and dinner in the office, every day through DoorDash.
• 401k access.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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