Member of Technical Staff, Multimodal Speech
San Jose$180k - $450kfull-timePosted 7mo ago
About the role
Role driving development of advanced speech and audio capabilities within multimodal foundation models, spanning data, modeling, training, evaluation, and real-time serving to enable seamless, real-time multimodal intelligence.
Responsibilities
- Drive research and development to advance speech and audio capabilities in multimodal models, including speech recognition, synthesis, and understanding.
- Develop and improve large-scale speech and audio data pipelines, including data collection, filtering, alignment, and synthetic data generation.
- Design and implement state-of-the-art models for speech and audio, including end-to-end multimodal architectures and real-time systems.
- Build evaluation frameworks and internal benchmarks to measure speech quality, latency, robustness, and overall user experience.
- Optimize models and systems for real-time performance, scalability, and production deployment.
- Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to translate research innovations into impactful, user-facing AI experiences.
Qualifications
- Proven track record of advancing speech or audio models through innovations in data, modeling, or training.
- Strong experience in speech/audio domains such as ASR, TTS, speech-to-speech, or audio foundation models.
- Experience with large-scale machine learning systems and distributed training.
- Strong background in data-driven experimentation, systematic evaluation, and model iteration.
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to drive end-to-end impact from research to production.
Skills
Required:Speech and audio modelingLarge-scale ML systems & distributed trainingData-driven experimentation & evaluation
Last updated Jul 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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