Research Staff, Voice AI Foundations

Team: Product

Location: Indonesia

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities:

• Pioneer development of latent space models to address scale, cost, and data challenges in voice AI.
• Build and optimize neural audio codecs for low bit-rate compression and high-fidelity reconstruction across diverse datasets.
• Develop steerable generative models to synthesize human speech across multiple contexts, speakers, and environments.
• Create embedding systems to disentangle speaker, content, style, and environmental dimensions for precise control and dataset augmentation.
• Design scalable model architectures, training strategies, and inference algorithms optimized for hardware efficiency.
• Conduct rigorous experiments to validate new architectures and model innovations, leveraging large-scale audio datasets.
• Collaborate with research and engineering teams to integrate findings into production-grade voice AI systems.
Requirements:
• Strong foundation in statistical learning, self-supervised learning, and multimodal AI.
• Deep expertise in foundation model architectures and experience scaling them across large datasets.
• Demonstrated ability to bridge theoretical research with practical implementation.
• Experience building data pipelines to process, curate, and maintain large, diverse audio datasets.
• Track record of rigorous experimental design, controlled evaluations, and reproducible research.
• Knowledge of hardware constraints and model optimization techniques for real-world deployment.
• Research publications or open-source contributions in speech, language, or multimodal AI.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, creativity, and ability to operate in a fast-changing environment.
Benefits:
• Holistic health coverage including medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Annual wellness and mental health stipends, life and disability insurance plans.
• Flexible schedule with unlimited PTO, generous parental leave, and paid US holidays.
• Stipends for home office setup and personal productivity.
• 401(k) plan with company match and tax savings programs.
• Learning and education stipends, participation in conferences, AI workshops, and employee resource groups.
• Global remote work options, with benefits administered according to local regulations for international employees.