Cartesia · 4 months ago
Senior Applied Researcher, Audio Generation
HQ - San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$200K/yr - $350K/yrCartesia is on a mission to build the next generation of AI and is seeking a Senior Applied Researcher to contribute to the development of next-generation speech models. The role involves designing, training, and deploying novel generative models for various audio tasks, with a focus on achieving high fidelity and low latency.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Real TimeSoftware
Responsibilities
Develop & optimize speech and audio models for production
Work with engineering to ship and scale your models across our target platforms: cloud, on-premise, and on-device
Develop model architectures and inference strategies specifically for low-latency, real-time performance on consumer hardware
Implement and refine mechanisms for fine-grained controllability, allowing for the manipulation of attributes like speaker identity, emotion, prosody, and acoustic style
Pioneer the latest research on new architectures for generative modeling
Qualification
Required
Proven experience in developing and training novel generative models, preferably for audio or speech
Clear understanding of the architectural trade-offs between model quality, inference speed, and memory footprint
Hands-on experience with model conditioning and control mechanisms
Benefits
Lunch, dinner and snacks at the office.
Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees.
401(k).
Relocation and immigration support.
Company
Cartesia
Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices.
Founded in 2023
11-50 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$86MKey Investors
Kleiner PerkinsIndex Ventures
2025-03-11Series A· $64M
2024-12-12Seed· $22M
Leadership Team
Karan Goel
Founder / CEO
Arjun Desai
Co-Founder
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