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A healthtech unicorn is building AI digital health agents designed to safely and empathetically assist patients. As the Staff Research Scientist, you'll help build end-to-end foundational speech models capable of full-duplex communication, enabling AI that can listen and respond simultaneously with human-like conversation, emotions, and natural language suitable for healthcare.

What you'll do

• Design and develop novel speech foundation models for healthcare conversations, working end-to-end from research through to productionizing models


• Work on post-training LLMs for speech to enhance their conversational capabilities


• Tackle unique challenges including response time optimization, maintaining alignment between text and speech outputs, and operating in noisy environments


• Create innovative approaches to synthetic conversational data generation


• Have the opportunity to publish your groundbreaking research

What you'll bring

• PhD with 8+ years in speech technologies or related field


• Experience with Speech LLMs


• 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)

You'll be based in the Bay Area and will receive highly competitive comp (up to $350K base DOE) with substantial equity.

If you're excited about creating the next generation of speech AI that will revolutionize healthcare communication, click apply!

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• Software Development