Open-Source Audio & Speech Models Research Engineer

Bison; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) plan

Relocation support

Snacks and meals in office

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Zyphra, an AI company based in San Francisco, seeks a Research Engineer - Audio & Speech Models to advance open-source autoencoders, ASR, TTS, SSL, and speech-to-speech models. You will contribute across data gathering, processing, architecture design, and training.

You will work on large-scale audio training runs, training stack optimization, data processing, and methodology ablations, collaborating with researchers and engineers to push state-of-the-art in audio AI.

Qualifications

• Strong research taste from conception to execution and write-up.
• Ability to prototype ideas quickly from concept to experiment.
• Excellent collaboration and communication in a high-paced research setting.
• Ability to work across research and engineering implementation at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead large-scale audio training runs and model evaluations.
• Prototype and ablate architectures and training methodologies.
• Process and curate audio data for model training and evaluation.
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers on scalable solutions.

Skills

Research intuition

Implementation prototyping

Communication

Collaboration in fast-paced setting

Education

Postgraduate degree in CS/EE/ML

Tools

PyTorch

Python

Large-scale GPU clusters

Job description

Zyphra, an AI company based in San Francisco, seeks a Research Engineer - Audio & Speech Models to advance open-source autoencoders, ASR, TTS, SSL, and speech-to-speech models. You will contribute across data gathering, processing, architecture design, and training.

You will work on large-scale audio training runs, training stack optimization, data processing, and methodology ablations, collaborating with researchers and engineers to push state-of-the-art in audio AI.