Principal Research & Engineering, Realtime Voice AI

Highlights

• Lead the roadmap for Inflection's realtime Voice AI stack end to end.
• Shape how emotionally intelligent AI shows up in spoken interactions.
• Deploy responsive, trustworthy voice agents for enterprise workflows.

What they offer

• Meaningful equity component
• Robust medical, dental and vision options with HSA, FSA and DFSA contributions
• 401k matching program
• Flexible Time Off, 10 paid holidays, 5 days sick leave
• Parental, Medical and Family care leave
• Cell-phone, wellness and office setup stipends

Ideal candidate

A hands-on technical leader passionate about natural, emotionally intelligent voice experiences who stays close to architecture and debugging while mentoring senior talent and partnering across product and design.

Requirements

• Experience leading or serving as a principal Research and Engineering contributor to realtime voice, speech, audio AI, or conversational AI systems in production
• Experience with one or more of: streaming ASR, TTS, speech-to-speech systems, speech LLMs, audio tokenization, multimodal models, barge-in, low-latency inference, or realtime agents
• Strong technical judgment across both speech modeling and production systems
• Ability to define voice quality in terms of user and customer outcomes, not only offline model metrics
• Experience designing or using evaluation systems that capture real user experience
• Strong product intuition for natural, trustworthy, emotionally appropriate voice interactions
• Ability to lead senior technical talent while staying close to code, architecture, and debugging work
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field