5 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and improve production speech models and systems to enhance real-time conversational quality.
- Post-train LLMs for voice agents used in consumer finance.
- Develop evaluation systems, harnesses, and monitoring systems.
- Work across models, data, infrastructure, and product to improve end-to-end agent quality.
- Own major technical areas from problem definition through production deployment.
Requirements
- Strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to build reliable production systems.
- Experience with speech modeling or LLM post-training is sought, though prior experience is not required.
- Familiarity with ASR, TTS, turn detection, speech enhancement, multilingual speech, LLM post-training, or model evaluation.
- Ability to diagnose real-world model failures and turn them into practical improvements.
- High ownership, strong execution speed, and comfort working in ambiguous technical areas.
- Driven engineers with strong technical ability and enthusiasm for difficult AI problems are encouraged to apply.
Benefits
- In-person work in the San Francisco office 4 days per week with an 8:00 AM start time.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for full-time employees.
- Generous 401(k).
- Catered lunches.
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About Salient
Salient builds compliance-first AI agents that automate loan-servicing workflows for US consumer lenders, including collections, customer support, QA/compliance reviews, disputes, and total-loss mitigation. The platform integrates with existing banking and servicing systems and handles borrower communications across voice, text, and email. Founded in 2023 and based in San Francisco, the privately held company sells to banks, credit unions, auto lenders, and fintechs.