Phonic

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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