Member of Technical Staff, Applied AI – Speech (Fully Remote)

Salient; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Salient builds AI agents for regulated financial services. They are backed by a16z and Y Combinator, with $75M raised in Series A, cash flow positive and profitable, serving over 20% of the auto lending industry.

Salient designs and deploys speech-to-speech models for live calls, focusing on real-time conversational quality and robust production stability. Join the team to design, train, and ship models that power production voice agents and diagnose real-world failures.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in speech, audio, or related machine learning.
• Experience with speech-to-speech, full-duplex, or real-time conversational speech systems.
• Strong engineering fundamentals and ability to build reliable production systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, train, and ship models that improve conversational quality on live calls.
• Build and improve the production speech stack including neural codecs and streaming inference.
• Diagnose messy real-world failures and turn them into improvements.

Job description

• Build the speech-to-speech and real-time voice models behind Salient's production voice agents.
• Work on full-duplex interaction, streaming inference, and neural codecs for live calls.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, train, and ship models that improve conversational quality on live calls.
• Build and improve the production speech stack including neural codecs and streaming inference.
• Diagnose messy real-world failures and turn them into improvements.

What We’re Looking For:

• 5+ years of experience in speech, audio, or related machine learning.
• Experience with speech-to-speech, full-duplex, or real-time conversational speech systems.
• Strong engineering fundamentals and ability to build reliable production systems.

Salient builds AI agents for regulated financial services. They are backed by a16z and Y Combinator, with $75M raised in Series A, cash flow positive and profitable, serving over 20% of the auto lending industry.