Speech LLM Engineer — Build Audio AI (Equity, Hybrid)

Plaud; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 195,000 - 365,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding team initiative

Base salary + bonus + Equity

Healthcare benefits

401(k)

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

Hybrid office

Gear

Job summary

Plaud Inc. is seeking senior AI researchers to join our SpeechLLM lab in San Francisco. You will help build and train large-scale audio/speech models and push the boundaries of human-AI interaction.

We value hands-on experience with PyTorch or JAX, distributed training, and optimization for real-time inference. You will work across the stack from signal processing to foundation model training, collaborating with a fast-growing team.

Qualifications

• Experience building and training large-scale audio or speech models.
• Strong background in sequence modeling architectures and distributed training.
• Ability to optimize large-scale distributed training runs and GPU memory usage.
• Experience with PyTorch or JAX and real-time inference considerations.

Skills

PyTorch or JAX

Distributed training

GPU memory management

Signal processing

Speech modeling

Tools

JAX

TensorRT-LLM

DeepSpeed

Kubernetes

PyTorch

Job description

Plaud Inc. is seeking senior AI researchers to join our SpeechLLM lab in San Francisco. You will help build and train large-scale audio/speech models and push the boundaries of human-AI interaction.

We value hands-on experience with PyTorch or JAX, distributed training, and optimization for real-time inference. You will work across the stack from signal processing to foundation model training, collaborating with a fast-growing team.