Applied Researcher, Audio
CartesiaVoice AI company
San Francisco, United StatesSenior
Index Ventures
Kleiner Perkins
Lightspeed Venture Partners
General Catalyst
NVIDIA
A* Capital
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Lead research on realtime audio understanding, generation, and speech-to-speech models.
- •You will lead research at the frontier of realtime conversation and human AI interaction.
- •You will contribute to novel architectures, data, and evaluations for realtime audio, and translate them into state-of-the-art models used in voice agents around the world.
- •Key Responsibilities Architect and develop new architectures for realtime audio understanding, generation, and speech-to-speech models.
- •Contribute to frontier multimodal and multilingual datasets for pre-training and post-training.
- •Set new standards for how we evaluate and benchmark our audio models.
- •Requirements Strong applied mindset and ability to balance scientific novelty with product impact.
- •Excited and able to work across the stack from infra, to data, to evals, to architecture.
- •Deep expertise in deep generative modeling.
- •Experience with large-scale training, GPU/TPU acceleration, and model optimization.
Domain expertise
ai
Benefits & perks
Compensation, Health Insurance, Parental Leave, 401(k), Commuter Allowance, Flexible PTO, Meals & Snacks