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Applied Researcher, Audio
$200K–$350K
*HQ - San Francisco, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2025
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About the job
Leads research and development of real-time audio models for voice agents, spanning architectures, data, and evaluation.
What you'll do
- Develop architectures for real-time audio understanding, generation, and multimodal speech-to-speech models.
- Build multimodal and multilingual training datasets, including data curation and synthetic-data methods.
- Establish evaluation and benchmarking standards for audio models.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise in deep generative modeling.
- Experience with large-scale training, GPU/TPU acceleration, and model optimization.
- Ability to work across infrastructure, data, evaluation, and architecture.
Nice to have
- Experience in audio understanding, audio generation, speech-to-speech, or language modeling.
Pay
$200K – $350K USD base salary
Tools
GPU, TPU
AI focus
Research and develop real-time audio and multimodal models for human-AI interaction, including training data and evaluation.
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