Research Engineer - Audio & Speech Models

What We're Looking For / Requirements

• Strong research taste and intuition.
• The ability to work through a research project from conception to execution to write-up.
• Strong implementation and prototyping ability (can take an idea from conception to experimentation quickly).
• The ability to work well with others in a high-paced research setting.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and can work effectively on both research and engineering implementation at scale.

Qualifications / Additional Skills

• Expertise and intuition for training models in the audio domain, including text-to-speech, ASR, speech-to-speech, speech-emotion-recognition, or other models.
• Experience in training audio autoencoders.
• Understanding of signal processing, especially of audio signals.
• Experience with diffusion models, consistency models, or GANs.
• Experience with training on large-scale (multi-node) GPU clusters.
• Strong grasp of proper experimental methodology for running rigorous ablations and other hypothesis testing.
• Understanding of and interest in large-scale, highly parallel data processing pipelines.
• Proficiency with PyTorch and Python.
• Experience contributing to large pre-existing codebases and rapidly getting up to speed.
• Previously published machine learning research in well-respected venues.
• Postgraduate degree in a scientific subject (Computer Science, EE/EECS, Mathematics, Physics, Machine Learning).

Why Work at Zyphra

Our research methodology is grounded in methodical, step-by-step approaches to ambitious goals. Both deep research and engineering excellence are equally valued. We strongly value new and crazy ideas and are very willing to bet big on new ideas. We move as quickly as we can; we aim to minimize the bar to impact as low as possible. We all enjoy what we do and love discussing AI.

Benefits and Perks

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and FSA plans.
• Competitive compensation and 401(k) plan.
• Relocation and immigration support on a case-by-case basis.
• In-office snacks and meals provided.
• Unlimited PTO and company holidays.
• In-person team in San Francisco with a collaborative, high-energy environment.