Staff AI Engineer — Speech & Voice Production

Salient; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Generous 401(k)

Catered lunches

Job summary

Salient is seeking a Member of Technical Staff to build speech and language models for voice agents in San Francisco. You will tackle complex speech modeling problems and make significant contributions to real-world applications.

This role offers high ownership and collaboration within a small, elite team focused on production systems and improving conversational quality. Salient provides competitive benefits, including medical coverage and 401(k).

Qualifications

• Strong engineering fundamentals and ability to build reliable production systems.
• Experience with speech modeling, or LLM post-training.
• Ability to diagnose messy real-world model failures and turn them into practical improvements.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve production speech models and systems.
• Post-train LLMs for voice agents used for consumer finance.
• Develop evals, harnesses, and monitoring systems.

Skills

Strong engineering fundamentals

Experience with speech modeling

Ability to diagnose real-world model failures

High ownership

Job description

Salient is seeking a Member of Technical Staff to build speech and language models for voice agents in San Francisco. You will tackle complex speech modeling problems and make significant contributions to real-world applications.

This role offers high ownership and collaboration within a small, elite team focused on production systems and improving conversational quality. Salient provides competitive benefits, including medical coverage and 401(k).