Zyphra
Research Engineer - Audio & Speech Models
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 127 days ago
PythonNode.jsMachine LearningPyTorchA/B TestingSignal ProcessingResearchExperimental DesignCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- You will be deeply involved in the entire model training process, from data gathering and processing to designing novel architectures and training methodologies.
- Performance optimization of our training stack
- Audio dataset collection, processing, and evaluation
Responsibilities
- Relocation and immigration support on a case-by-case basis
Requirements
- The ability to work through a research project from conception to execution to write-up.
- The ability to work well with others in a high-paced research setting
- Expertise and intuition for training models in the audio domain, including text-to-speech, ASR, speech-to-speech, speech-emotion-recognition, or other models
- Our research methodology is grounded in methodical, step-by-step approaches to ambitious goals. Both deep research and engineering excellence are equally valued
Skills
- Experience in training audio autoencoders
- Understanding of signal processing, especially of audio signals
- Experience with diffusion models, consistency models, or GANs
- Experience with training on large-scale (multi-node) GPU clusters
- Strong grasp of proper experimental methodology for running rigorous ablations and other hypothesis testing
- Understanding of and interest in large-scale, highly parallel data processing pipelines
- Proficiency with PyTorch and Python
- Experience contributing to large pre-existing codebases and rapidly getting up to speed
- Previously published machine learning research in well-respected venues
- Postgraduate degree in a scientific subject (Computer Science, EE/EECS, Mathematics, Physics, Machine Learning)
- We strongly value new and crazy ideas and are very willing to bet big on new ideas
- We move as quickly as we can; we aim to minimize the bar to impact as low as possible
Compensation
- Competitive compensation and 401(k) plan
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and FSA plans
- Unlimited PTO and company holidays
Company info
- ZYPHRA IS AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPANY BASED IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.
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