Staff Research Scientist
techire ai · Seattle, WA · 1 wk ago
On-siteEngineering$350k–$400k/yrFull-time
What You'll Do
- Build SOTA speech models from the ground up, at genuinely large scale
- Own problems end-to-end, from research through to production
- Solve hard, domain-specific speech challenges as part of the push toward speech-to-speech LLM research
- Help shape technical direction as part of a team working at the frontier of this space
What You'll Bring
- Deep, hands-on expertise in at least one of: Speech/Audio LLMs, TTS or audio generation, or large-scale speech understanding
- Experience shipping speech systems at real scale, not just research-stage prototypes
- Nice to have: Experience pre-training speech foundation models (HuBERT, Wav2Vec or similar)
- Multimodal experience
Package
Up to $350K–$400K base (DOE), plus substantial equity. On-site, South Bay or Seattle.