Zyphra is hiring: Research Engineer – Audio & Speech Models in Palo Alto

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Research Engineer – Audio & Speech Models

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Zyphra is an artificial intelligence company based in Palo Alto, California.

The Role:

As a Research Engineer - Audio & Speech Models, you will be a core contributor on Zyphra’s Audio Team, building the next generation of open-source text-to-speech and audio models. You will be deeply involved in the entire model training process from data gathering and processing to designing novel architectures and training methodologies.

You’ll work across:

• Large-scale audio training runs
• Performance optimization of our training stack
• Audio dataset collection, processing, and evaluation
• Architecture and training methodology ablations and improvements
  
  

Requirments:

• Strong research taste and intuition. The ability to work through a research project from conception to execution to write-up.
• Strong implementation and prototyping ability (can take an idea from conception to experimentation quickly)
• The ability to work well with others in a high-paced research setting
• Can rapidly learn new fields and are excited to implement new ideas
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and can work effectively on both research and engineering implementation at scale.
  
  

Bonus Qualifications:

• Expertise and intuition for training models in the audio domain, including text-to-speech, ASR, speech-to-speech, speech-emotion-recognition, or other models
• 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)
  
  

Why Work at Zyphra:

• Our research methodology is to make grounded, methodical steps toward ambitious goals. Both deep research and engineering excellence are equally valued
• 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
• We all enjoy what we do and love discussing AI
  
  

Benefits and Perks:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and FSA plans
• Competitive compensation and 401(k)
• Relocation and immigration support on a case-by-case basis
• On-site meals prepared by a dedicated culinary team; Thursday Happy Hours
• In-person team in Palo Alto, CA, with a collaborative, high-energy environment
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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