Research Engineer: Speech & Audio ML Innovator

Hume AI; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Hume AI in Australia seeks a Research Engineer to advance speech-language and audio models through hands-on development, large-scale training, and rigorous evaluation. You will build and maintain software for distributed training, inference, and benchmarking, collaborate with customer teams, and own experiments from question to validated improvements.

A PhD is not required; we value practical research ability, strong Python/PyTorch skills, and the ability to communicate methods and findings

Qualifications

• 2+ years in model training or fine-tuning with multimodal data.
• Strong Python and PyTorch skills for developing training/evaluation code.
• Experience building robust research software beyond notebooks.
• Strong experimental judgment: baselines, evaluations, and results interpretation.
• Evidence of research ability through publications, releases, or open-source work.
• Ability to iterate quickly on uncertain research directions.
• Clear written and verbal communication of methods and findings.

Responsibilities

• Investigate research questions in speech-language, audio, and multimodal ML and design experiments to test hypotheses.
• Train, fine-tune, validate, and develop models built in-house and those from customers.
• Build reliable software for distributed training, inference, and benchmarking, ensuring reproducibility.
• Develop data workflows for collecting, storing, preprocessing, and analyzing large-scale datasets used in training and evaluation.
• Design evaluation protocols and benchmarks that measure model quality, generalization, robustness, and progress against objectives.
• Collaborate with customer research and technical teams to define questions, understand data, and carry out training and evaluation.
• Document experimental designs, results, limitations, and decisions for reproducibility.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

Model training

Experimentation

Research systems

Communication

Job description

Hume AI in Australia seeks a Research Engineer to advance speech-language and audio models through hands-on development, large-scale training, and rigorous evaluation. You will build and maintain software for distributed training, inference, and benchmarking, collaborate with customer teams, and own experiments from question to validated improvements.

A PhD is not required; we value practical research ability, strong Python/PyTorch skills, and the ability to communicate methods and findings