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Cartesia · 1 day ago

Senior Applied Researcher, Audio Understanding

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level

Cartesia is on a mission to build the next generation of AI, focusing on interactive intelligence that can process extensive streams of audio, video, and text. As a Senior Applied Researcher in Audio Understanding, you will tackle complex audio perception challenges and lead high-impact projects that contribute to the development of aware AI.

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Hiring Manager
Elliot Michaels
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Responsibilities

Architect and develop novel, large-scale models for complex audio understanding tasks, including multi-speaker ASR, diarization, and non-speech audio classification and deploy them to production at scale
Pioneer research in areas like self-supervised learning for audio, few-shot learning, and robust audio-visual perception
Set new standards for how we evaluate and benchmark our audio understanding systems
Build large scale pre-training and fine-tuning datasets for audio understanding capabilities

Qualification

ASR expertiseAudio understandingLarge-scale trainingSelf-supervised learningModel optimizationApplied mindset

Required

Deep expertise in ASR, audio understanding, language modeling, or generative modeling more broadly
Experience with large-scale training, GPU/TPU acceleration, and model optimization
Strong applied mindset—able to balance scientific novelty with product impact

Benefits

Lunch, dinner and snacks at the office.
Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees.
401(k).
Relocation and immigration support.
Your own personal Yoshi.

Company

Cartesia

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Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices.
dateFounded in 2023
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://www.cartesia.cloud

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$86M
Key Investors
Kleiner PerkinsIndex Ventures
2025-03-11Series A· $64M
2024-12-12Seed· $22M

Leadership Team

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Karan Goel
Founder / CEO
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Arjun Desai
Co-Founder
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