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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
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