Cartesia
Applied Researcher, Audio
*HQ - San Francisco, CA · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 309 days ago
DatabricksSystems EngineeringResearch
About the role
- You will be responsible for leading research at the frontier of realtime conversation and human AI interaction.
- You will contribute across the stack to novel architectures, data, and evals for realtime audio, and translate them into state-of-the-art models used in voice agents around the world.
- Set new standards for how we evaluate and benchmark our audio models
Responsibilities
- Architect and develop new architectures for realtime audio understanding, generation, and speech-to-speech models that reason jointly over multiple modalities in realtime
- Contribute to frontier multimodal and multilingual datasets for pre-training and post-training, including curating data mixes and developing new methods for synthetic data generation and annotation
- Our team combines deep expertise in model innovation and systems engineering paired with a design-minded product engineering team to build and ship cutting edge models and experiences.
- We're funded by leading investors at Index Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, along with Factory, Conviction, A Star, General Catalyst, SV Angel, Databricks and others.
- We're fortunate to have the support of many amazing advisors, and 90+ angels across many industries, including the world's foremost experts in AI.
- Excited and able to work across the stack from infra, to data, to evals, to architecture to solve customer problems and build state-of-the-art models.
- 🦖 Your own personal Yoshi
Requirements
- Strong applied mindset and ability to balance scientific novelty with product impact.
- Experience with large-scale training, GPU/TPU acceleration, and model optimization.
Nice to have
- Deep expertise in deep generative modeling.
- Previous experience in audio understanding, audio generation, speech-to-speech, or language modeling preferred but not required.
Compensation
- 💰 Compensation Competitive base salary alongside attractive equity package.
Benefits
- 💰 Compensation Competitive base salary alongside attractive equity package.
- 🩺 Health Insurance Fully covered medical insurance along with dental and vision for you and your family.
- 🧑🧑🧒🧒 Parental Leave 9 weeks paternity & 12 weeks maternity leave
- 🚆 Commuter Allowance A monthly stipend to help you get to and from the office.
- 🏖️ Flexible PTO Take as much time as you need to recharge your batteries.
- We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.
Company info
- Our mission is to architect AI that learns from and interacts with the world like humans do.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer.
Visa & Work Authorization
- We provide visa sponsorship support and assess each circumstance on a case-by-case basis.
- However, visa sponsorship is dependent on many factors, including the role you are applying for, and the location you are going to be based, and so we can't always guarantee success.
- Your Recruiter will work with you to understand your visa sponsorship needs from the first call.
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