Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Voice AI

Together AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, is building high-performance inference for voice applications. We are hiring a Senior ML Engineer to own the model serving stack for STT, TTS, and speech-to-speech, optimizing latency and throughput on GPUs.

You will work hands-on with engines like vLLM, SGLang, and TensorRT-LLM, profile GPU usage, and design batching for streaming audio while collaborating with partners to productionize models.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of ML engineering experience focused on model serving or ML infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with LLM serving engines (vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM)
• Strong proficiency in Python and PyTorch; GPU profiling and optimization (CUDA, memory management)
• Track record of shipping ML systems to production with measurable performance improvements.
• Strong product sense for developers building voice apps
• Experience in a small, fast-moving team environment
• Experience with speech and audio ML (ASR, TTS) is a plus but not required

Responsibilities

• Own the model serving stack powering the voice platform (STT, TTS, speech-to-speech).
• Productionize voice models with batching, streaming inference, and memory management for audio workloads.
• Build and maintain voice model evaluation frameworks (WER, latency, naturalness).
• Enable new model architectures in the serving stack as the field evolves.
• Collaborate with model partners to integrate external models on Together's infra.
• Profile and debug the full inference stack from GPU kernels to framework bottlenecks.
• Work with platform engineering to meet latency and reliability targets for real-time APIs.
• Contribute to fine-tuning capabilities for customers creating differentiated voice experiences.
• Lay groundwork for multiple new products.

Skills

Model serving

Inference optimization

Python

PyTorch

GPU profiling

Production ML systems

Product sense

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/EE or related field

Tools

vLLM

SGLang

TensorRT-LLM

Job description

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Voice AI

About the Role

Together AI is building the best inference infrastructure for voice applications. Our Voice AI platform powers production-grade, real-time voice agents and applications - serving speech-to-text and text-to-speech models with best-in-class latency and reliability.

We're looking for a Senior ML Engineer to drive the model serving layer for voice workloads. You'll work hands-on with inference engines like TRT-LLM and SGLang to optimize how we serve models like Whisper, Parakeet, Orpheus, and Kokoro - pushing latency and throughput to the frontier. You'll profile GPU utilization, design batching strategies for streaming audio, and ensure new model architectures can go from research to production quickly.

This is a foundational hire on a small, high-impact team. Voice inference has unique challenges - streaming audio, tokenization, real-time latency budgets - that require dedicated ML engineering focus. You'll shape how Together serves voice models as the industry moves from pipeline architectures (ASR -> LLM -> TTS) toward end-to-end speech-to-speech.

• Own the model serving stack that powers Together's voice platform across STT, TTS, and speech-to-speech.
• Work directly with state-of-the-art accelerators (H100s, H200s, B200s) to optimize voice model inference.
• Collaborate with model partners (Cartesia, Deepgram, Rime, and others) to bring their models to production on Together's infrastructure.
• Build quality evaluation frameworks that guide model selection for customers and inform the roadmap.
• Join a small, early-stage team with outsized impact on a fast-growing product area.

Responsibilities

• Optimize inference performance for voice models (STT, TTS, speech-to-speech) - targeting best-in-class TTFB, throughput, and GPU utilization across our curated model set.
• Productionize voice models on serverless and dedicated endpoints, including batching strategies, streaming inference, and memory management tailored to audio workloads.
• Build and maintain a voice model evaluation framework - measuring WER across accents, languages, and noise conditions for STT; naturalness, latency, and pronunciation accuracy for TTS.
• Enable new model architectures in our serving stack as the field evolves, including audio-native LLMs, codec-based models (SNAC), and speech-to-speech systems.
• Collaborate with model partners to integrate and optimize their models (Cartesia, Deepgram, Rime, and others) running on Together's infrastructure.
• Profile and debug performance across the full inference stack - from GPU kernels to framework-level bottlenecks - and ship measurable improvements.
• Work with the platform engineering side of the team to ensure the serving layer meets the latency and reliability requirements of real-time voice APIs.
• Contribute to voice model fine-tuning capabilities (STT and TTS) as we enable customers to build differentiated voice experiences on Together.
• Lay the groundwork for multiple new products down the line.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in ML engineering, with a focus on model serving, inference optimization, or ML infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with LLM serving engines (vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, or similar) - comfortable reading and modifying engine internals, not just using APIs.
• Strong proficiency in Python and PyTorch; experience with GPU profiling and optimization (CUDA, memory management, kernel-level debugging).
• Track record of shipping ML systems to production with measurable performance improvements.
• Strong product sense - you think about what developers building voice apps actually need, not just what's technically interesting.
• Comfort working on a small, early-stage team where you'll wear multiple hats and move fast.
• Experience with speech and audio ML (ASR, TTS architectures, audio signal processing) is a strong plus but not required - you can learn this quickly if you have strong ML engineering fundamentals.
• Familiarity with audio codecs and tokenization schemes (SNAC, Encodec, DAC) is a plus.
• Experience training or fine-tuning speech models is a plus.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience

About Together AI

Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, is purpose-built for AI engineers. AI application developers get high-performance inference that scales reliably, fine-tuning and reinforcement learning for creating frontier-level specialized models, and pre-training at massive scale for fully custom intelligence, all around a marketplace of leading open models that teams can run, adapt, and own. Trusted by Cursor, Decagon, ElevenLabs, Salesforce, and Zoom, Together serves 400+ trillion tokens a month.

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance and other competitive benefits. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $200,000 - $260,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.

Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.