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Applied AI Scientist - LLMs & Voice

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Remote, United States +7 moreSenior

Base Salary

$17k - $228k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Drive the quality of automated customer support through evaluation and continuous improvement.
  • Build and deploy agent systems, including autonomous voice and digital agents, for production customer interactions.
  • Experiment with, evaluate, and integrate current voice and text models.
  • Develop solutions for poor connectivity, low literacy, and low-resource languages.
  • Own AI problems end-to-end from discovery through production, reliability, monitoring, and customer impact.
  • Work with product and engineering leaders to ship scalable systems serving millions of users.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of AI/ML experience.
  • Hands-on experience building LLM or AI systems involving evaluation, RAG, embeddings, safety, or guardrails.
  • Strong foundations in statistics and machine learning theory.
  • Solid Python skills.
  • Experience taking AI/ML systems from prototype to production with attention to reliability, performance, and scalability.
  • Fluency with AI agents, preferably including production deployment experience.
  • Preferred qualifications include speech or LLM research, voice AI involving ASR, TTS, latency optimization, real-time streaming, or voice agents, conversational AI, low-resource language work, high-risk agent environments such as finance, and bilingual French fluency.
  • Ability to design AI systems end-to-end amid ambiguity, build evaluation frameworks, and balance research intuition with pragmatic engineering.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work for candidates based in specified talent hub countries or African operating markets.
  • $1,200 yearly coworking-meetup stipend.
  • At least annual travel to operational markets, with exceptions available.
  • Salary of $167,00 - $227,900 USD depending on level and location, plus equity.
  • Subsidized health insurance for employees and dependents and retirement contributions, varying by country.
  • Six months of fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance.
  • Flexible vacation, with most employees taking 21-30 days excluding statutory holidays.
  • $10,000 annual charitable donation matching.

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