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Staff Research Scientist, Foundational Audio

Google
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Mountain View, CA, USA$174k - $252kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Google Research role focusing on leading and executing research in sequence, speech, audio, and multimodal modeling, with emphasis on scalable models, open-source contributions, and mentoring.

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead research agendas, experimental designs, and evaluation benchmarks in sequence, speech, audio, and multimodal modeling.
  • Co-design and optimize models for scaling laws, memory or cache efficiency, distillation, and low-latency streaming inference in JAX, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
  • Contribute to open-source toolkits, and mentor researchers.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Computer Science, Linguistics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience leading a research agenda in sequence, speech, or audio modeling.
  • Experience with sequence-to-sequence models across state-space or linear attention, token-free latent representations, speech-text modeling, diffusion, flow-matching, speculative decoding, or streaming alignment.
  • Experience with hardware-aware model co-design, scaling laws, memory or cache optimization, or streaming inference latency in JAX, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
  • One or more peer-reviewed publications in machine learning, speech, or audio conferences or journals.

Skills

Required:research leadershipsequence modelingmodel optimization for efficiencyprogramming frameworks

Benefits

  • Learn more about benefits at Google (link provided in job description).
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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