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Sr. Model Engineer, Voice

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1 day ago
Palo Alto, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$220k - $357k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain distributed data pipelines that ingest, process, and annotate real-world and synthetic audio.
  • Build and optimize distributed training infrastructure for speech-language models in JAX and PyTorch, including supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning at scale.
  • Develop automated evaluation, testing, and experimentation systems for model accuracy, audio quality, latency, and real-time performance.
  • Integrate voice models into production applications and real-time services, define technical specifications for spoken interactions, and own deployment from prototype to global scale.
  • Profile and optimize training and inference performance across throughput, latency, memory usage, and compute efficiency.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or another engineering discipline.
  • Production-quality programming experience in Python, PyTorch, JAX, Rust, or C++.
  • At least 2 years of experience working with large-scale voice-related products.
  • Preferred experience with distributed training and inference systems on Kubernetes.
  • Expert-level Python experience building clean, efficient, production-quality code for large-scale systems.
  • Preferred experience optimizing model training and inference software in JAX or PyTorch.
  • Preferred experience building automated testing, evaluation, and A/B experimentation pipelines for production systems.
  • Preferred hands-on experience building distributed data processing systems with Spark and Ray.

Benefits

  • Equity and comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
  • Access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, discounts, and other perks.
  • Base salary range is $220,000-$357,000 USD.
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