Drimva

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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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First seen Oct 29, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)