Research Engineer - Audio & Speech Models
Zyphra · San Francisco
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At a glance
Highlights
- Build next-gen open-source ASR, TTS, and speech-to-speech models.
- Own full model training lifecycle from data to novel architectures.
- Run large-scale audio training runs and improve evaluation pipelines.
What they offer
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and FSA plans
- Competitive compensation and 401(k) plan
- Unlimited PTO and company holidays
- In-office snacks and meals provided
- Relocation and immigration support on a case-by-case basis
Ideal candidate
A researcher-engineer with strong intuition for audio ML who thrives taking ideas from concept to experiment and write-up in a fast, collaborative team. You love ambitious ideas, rigorous experimentation, and shipping open-source models.
Requirements
- Strong research taste and intuition with end-to-end project ownership
- Strong implementation and prototyping ability
- Ability to work well in a high-paced research setting
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Expertise training audio models such as TTS, ASR and speech-to-speech
- Experience with audio autoencoders, signal processing and generative models
- Experience training on large-scale multi-node GPU clusters
- Proficiency with PyTorch and Python and large codebases
- Published ML research and postgraduate degree in a scientific subject
- remote policy
- In-person team in San Francisco
- visa sponsorship
- Immigration support on a case-by-case basis
Lab profile
About Zyphra
San Francisco AI lab building open language and audio models and autonomous desktop agents.
What they build
- Desktop and browser-based autonomous agents
- Open language models
- Open-source audio models (ASR, TTS, speech-to-speech)
Known for
- Agentic systems and human-AI interaction
- Reinforcement learning, post-training and preference learning
- Large-scale language model pre-training
- Novel model architectures and training methods
Key facts
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California