Zyphra · 2 months ago
Research Engineer – Audio & Speech Models
Palo Alto, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior LevelZyphra is an artificial intelligence company based in Palo Alto, California. The Research Engineer - Audio & Speech Models will contribute to the Audio Team, focusing on building next-generation open-source text-to-speech and audio models, while being involved in the entire model training process from data gathering to architecture design.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingMachine LearningSoftware
Responsibilities
Large-scale audio training runs
Performance optimization of our training stack
Audio dataset collection, processing, and evaluation
Architecture and training methodology ablations and improvements
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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)
Benefits
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
Company
Zyphra
Zyphra is superintelligence research and product company based in San Francisco, California.
Founded in 2021
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$100M2025-06-09Series A· $100M
2023-06-09Seed
2021-11-18Pre Seed
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