Salient
Applied AI Engineer
SF Headquarters. Posted 5 months ago
The role
You will build and improve production speech models and systems to improve real-time conversational quality. You will post-train LLMs for voice agents used for consumer finance and develop evals, harnesses, and monitoring systems.
What you will do
- Build and improve production speech models and systems
- Post-train LLMs for voice agents used for consumer finance
- Develop evals, harnesses, and monitoring systems
- Work across models, data, infrastructure, and product to improve end-to-end agent quality
- Own major technical areas from problem definition to production deployment
Required qualifications
- Strong engineering fundamentals and ability to build reliable production systems
- Experience with speech modeling, or LLM post-training
- Familiarity with areas such as ASR, TTS, turn detection, speech enhancement, multilingual speech, LLM post-training, or model evaluation
- Ability to diagnose messy real-world model failures and turn them into practical improvements
- High ownership, strong execution speed, and comfort operating in ambiguous technical areas
Nice to have
- Prior experience in speech modeling and LLM post-training
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Generous 401(k)
- Catered lunches
About the company
Salient builds AI agents for regulated financial services. The company is backed by a16z and Y Combinator and is building in person in San Francisco.