Udio (udio.com)

Udio (udio.com)

Member of Technical Staff - Quantitative Research

New York City (Remote possible for exceptional candidates) · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$250k-$350kDetected 71 days ago
SpringFull-Stack DevelopmentGCPKubernetesMachine LearningDeep LearningTensorFlowData ScienceStatisticsHRSignal ProcessingResearchLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • We are looking for a full-stack scientist to pioneer quantitative research efforts at Udio.

Responsibilities

  • Design & own evaluation/optimization frameworks for frontier music models
  • You'll build optimization loops and apply your findings to our pretraining, post-training and inference systems as applicable.
  • Drive product & research roadmap
  • Build stable infrastructure
  • You'll also build large-scale standalone data processing systems, allocating resources as needed to manage the data ecosystem.
  • You'll proactively identify opportunities, define metrics, share results, and build a rigorous foundation upon which to understand our highly subjective domain.
  • Excellence in scientific communication: You relate technical information with rigor and crystal clarity to researchers, engineers, product managers and business partners alike.
  • You'll own our data roadmap end-to-end, formulating research questions, exploring/linking/expanding data sources and conducting experiments at your discretion.

Requirements

  • Deep quantitative expertise: Ph.D. in statistics, mathematics, physics, or another quantitative discipline, or 5+ years' industry experience as a quantitative analyst / data scientist

Nice to have

  • Obsession with music & the science of sound.
  • Experience in DSP, MIR, music production / composition / performance, and a big record collection all a huge plus.
  • Experience with GCP, Apache Beam/DataFlow, Kubernetes, TensorFlow Data / TFRecord.
  • Experience designing evaluation frameworks specifically for generative model outputs in any modality.
  • Work at the intersection of science & art with a bleeding-edge music ML ecosystem, one-of-a-kind proprietary datasets and a passionate userbase.
  • Deploy substantial research compute resources as needed, including a powerful personal TPU pod.

Compensation

  • The salary range for this role is $250k - $350k.
  • Actual salary may vary based on level, work experience, performance, and other factors evaluated during the hiring process.

Benefits

  • Highly competitive salary and equity
  • Flexible time off
  • Top-notch private health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
  • Concierge medical and primary care through One Medical and Rightway
  • Mental health support from Spring Health
  • Personalized life insurance, travel assistance, and many other perks
  • This role is eligible for a compensation package of base salary, equity, and benefits.
  • Join a small, ambitious team which highly values autonomy, interdisciplinarity and continual learning.

Company info

  • What We're Looking For

Equal opportunity

  • Udio provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability

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