Applied AI Engineer
SalientAI Loan company
San Francisco, United StatesSenior
Andreessen Horowitz
Matrix Partners
Y Combinator
General Catalyst
Michael Ovitz
Gallery Ventures
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Build and improve production speech models for voice agents.
- •We're looking for a Member of Technical Staff to help build the speech and language models behind Salient's production voice agents.
- •Key Responsibilities Build and improve production speech models and systems with the ultimate goal of improving real-time conversational quality.
- •Post-train LLMs for voice agents used for consumer finance.
- •Develop evals, harnesses, and monitoring systems.
- •Work across models, data, infrastructure, and product to improve end-to-end agent quality.
- •Own major technical areas with significant autonomy, from problem definition to production deployment.
- •Requirements Strong engineering fundamentals and ability to build reliable production systems.
- •Experience with speech modeling, or LLM post-training.
- •Familiarity with areas such as ASR, TTS, turn detection, speech enhancement, multilingual speech, LLM post-training, or model evaluation.
- •Ability to diagnose messy real-world model failures and turn them into practical improvements.
- •High ownership, strong execution speed, and comfort operating in ambiguous technical areas.
Required skills
PythonTensorFlowPyTorchNLPLLMs
Nice-to-have skills
scikit-learn
Domain expertise
fintech
Benefits & perks
medical, dental, and vision coverage, generous 401(k), catered lunches
Tech stack
PythonTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnNLPLLMs