Lead Machine Learning Researcher

Job Description

Are you looking to lead impactful advancements in generative audio?

This fast-growing AI voice start-up is seeking an exceptional Senior ML Researcher to drive strategy and cutting-edge R&D for their transformative voice products.

Leveraging AI techniques, their technology empowers millions of users with powerful tools for vocal audio creation and customisation.

In this vital role, you'll provide strategic leadership and help shape the foundations for their new ML research organisation. Utilising your extensive background in speech technology, generative modelling, and audio ML, you'll spearhead advancements into new generative audio frontiers.

Your core responsibilities will include:

• Defining and providing long-term research strategy development to unlock novel generative speech and audio capabilities


• Executing the ML research roadmap to enhance existing products


• Collaborating closely with an experienced engineering team skilled at productionising ML, allowing you to focus on pioneering research


• Helping build and grow the ML Research team

You'll bring:

• 4+ years of experience leading impactful ML research for speech synthesis, speech-to-speech, TTS, voice conversion or related speech/audio domains


• Extensive hands-on expertise with state-of-the-art models & techniques for speech and audio synthesis such as Variational Temporal Autoencoders, self-supervised models like ContentVec/Hubert etc.


• Proven experience launching impactful research initiatives and strategies within the audio/speech domain.

The opportunity offers:

• Competitive salary (up to $200k depending on experience) and stock options


• Fully remote with flexible working hours


• Annual team offsites to exciting global destinations

This is a rare chance to drive cutting-edge generative audio AI research. If pushing the boundaries of voice technology excites you, apply now!