Salient
Applied AI Engineer
$200K–$300K
SF Headquarters · On-site · Full-time · Posted May 20, 2026
About the job
Build and improve production speech and language systems for real-time conversational voice agents serving consumer finance.
What you'll do
- Build and improve production speech models and systems to improve conversational quality.
- Post-train LLMs and develop evaluations, harnesses, and monitoring systems.
- Improve end-to-end agent quality across models, data, infrastructure, and product, from problem definition through production deployment.
What they ask for
- Strong engineering fundamentals and ability to build reliable production systems.
- Experience with speech modeling or LLM post-training.
- Familiarity with speech or language modeling areas such as ASR, TTS, turn detection, speech enhancement, multilingual speech, or model evaluation.
- Ability to diagnose real-world model failures and turn them into practical improvements.
Nice to have
- Prior experience in both speech modeling and LLM post-training is ideal, but not required.
Pay
$200K – $300K USD base salary
Tools
ASR, TTS, LLMs
AI focus
Production speech and language modeling, including LLM post-training, for voice agents in consumer finance.
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