Remote Staff Research Engineer, Text to Speech, Innovation

Summary

Join our growing team at SoundHound AI as a Research Scientist, where you will conduct research on TTS, work with language specialists and labelers, implement and train State Of The Art TTS models, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. This role is available in France and Germany, with remote/hybrid/in-office workplace options.

Requirements

• Proven track record of doing cutting edge research on TTS (published papers in top-tier conferences and journals, submitted patents, …)
• At least ten years of working in academia or industry on TTS or related topics such as voice conversion/cloning, emotion recognition, style transfer, vocoders, ASR, voice biometrics
• Contributions to open-source TTS projects or communities
• Excellent Python and C++ skills, and familiarity with the latest tools, standards and best practices
• Holistic mindset, and ability to own the entire technical stack for products with research and production components
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly

Responsibilities

• Conduct research on TTS
• Work with language specialist and labelers to organize the collection and maintenance of necessary data
• Implement and train State Of The Art TTS models
• Work with the systems and infrastructure team to produce production grade implementation, integration and deployment of those models, serving millions of queries a month

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with cloud and MLOps technologies such as kubernetes, docker
• Experience in deploying ML models at scale and driven by performance and cost efficiency
• Familiarity with diffusion models

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare
• Paid time off