Phonic
Research Scientist
San Francisco · Exec
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 140 days ago
Customer SupportResearchCommunication
About the role
- Your work will directly shape the models at the core of Phonic's product.
- You'll be working alongside a team of world-class researchers and engineers who move fast and hold a high bar.
- You'll be fully in-person in our SF office.
Responsibilities
- Design and run rigorous experiments, then translate what works into shipped improvements to our models and product
- you don't just write papers, you build things
- You move fluidly between ideas and implementation; you don't just write papers, you build things
Requirements
- Fluency in the math, probability, optimization, linear algebra, and the ability to reason about model behavior from first principles
Nice to have
- Publications at top venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, Interspeech, ICASSP, ACL, etc.)
- Experience with generative modeling, diffusion, flow matching, codec-based audio, or autoregressive models
- Familiarity with RLHF or preference optimization
- You are a former founder
Compensation
- in order to get the best talent, we provide salary and equity that recognize your skillset
Benefits
- 💸 Top-tier compensation: in order to get the best talent, we provide salary and equity that recognize your skillset
- 🩺 Healthcare: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision
- Deep expertise in at least one of: speech synthesis, ASR, audio modeling, language modeling, or multimodal learning
Company info
- Phonic has a very talent-dense and close-knit team.
- We collaborate with high trust and are constantly trying to improve how we work to deliver world-class research and product.
- Everyone takes ownership in what they do and they aren't afraid to dive in headfirst into new problems.
- Our team includes top-tier AI researchers, international olympiad medalists, and former founders and we're fully in-person in our SF office.
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