Job Details

Overview

Join to apply for the Senior Speech Research Scientist role at techire ai. This role focuses on building end-to-end foundational speech models capable of full-duplex communication in healthcare contexts.

As their Senior Research Scientist, you'll play a key part in making this a reality—building AI that can listen and respond simultaneously with human-like conversation, emotions, and natural language that healthcare demands.

What you'll do

• Design and develop novel speech foundation models for healthcare conversations, from research through productionizing models
• Work on post-training LLMs to enhance conversational capabilities for speech
• Address challenges such as response time optimization, alignment between text and speech outputs, and noisy environments
• Create innovative approaches to synthetic conversational data generation
• Opportunity to publish groundbreaking research

What you'll bring

• 6+ years in speech technologies or related field
• Hands-on experience with Speech LLMs, Speech Synthesis, TTS, Speech-to-Speech or similar
• Strong publication record at top-tier conferences in speech/multimodal AI
• Ability to implement research papers from scratch
• Experience pre-training foundation models with speech (HuBERT, Wav2Vec, or similar)
• Experience with inference technologies (vLLM, CUDA)

Location: Bay Area. Compensation: base range up to $350,000 per year, with DOE and equity.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Research, Science, and Engineering
• Industries: Software Development