Cerebro · 7 hours ago
AI Research Scientist - Speech
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$250K/yr - $350K/yrCerebro is an early-stage deep tech startup focused on creating emotionally and socially intelligent AI. They are seeking an AI Research Scientist specializing in speech and audio generation to help build a unified model that understands and generates language, voice, and human expression in real time.
Staffing & Recruiting
Hiring Manager
Guy Williams
Responsibilities
Help Build the World’s First Real-Time Human Foundation Model
Building the first unified model to understand and generate language, voice, and human expression
Developing a multimodal human foundation model: text, speech, facial expression, body language
Creating AI that understands fine-grained human signals and interprets them in context
Developing lifelike, responsive avatars that deliver genuine, human-like interactions
Moving from research breakthroughs to real-world systems used by millions
Qualification
Required
PhD (or equivalent experience) in speech synthesis (text-to-speech, speech-to-speech, audio generation) or related fields; a track record of pushing the research frontier
Deep learning expert: you own the ML pipeline, from data wrangling and prototyping to large-scale training and benchmarking
Thrive on blank-page problems —you don't wait for a task list; you create your own path
Passionate about rapidly iterating from research to production
Write clean, maintainable code your future self will thank you for
Collaborative mindset—love working with other brilliant, multidisciplinary minds
Company
Cerebro
Cerebro partners with companies backed by some of the worlds most prominent VC funds (a16z, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia) and accelerator programs including a significant portion of the Y Combinator portfolio to solve startup's most critical hiring challenges across AI, ML & robotics
Miami, Florida, US
2-10 employeesFunding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase