Applied AI Engineer
SF Headquarters$200k - $300kFull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Role focused on building speech and language models for Salient’s production voice agents, with high ownership and direct revenue impact in a fast-paced, production-focused environment.
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.
Qualifications
- Strong engineering fundamentals and ability to build reliable production systems.
- Experience with speech modeling, or LLM post-training.
- Familiarity with 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.
- Prior experience in speech modeling and LLM post-training is ideal, but not required. Emphasis on slope, intensity, and technical ability over exact background.
- Exceptional engineers who are highly driven and excited to work on hard AI problems are encouraged to apply!
Skills
Required:Production speech modelingLLM post-training
Nice to have:ASRTTS
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision coverage
- generous 401(k)
- catered lunches
Last updated Jul 29, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Salient
AI Servicing for Auto Lenders
Salient is an AI workflow automation tool for lenders. We're working with the largest auto lenders in America and are hiring!
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