Research Scientist

The role

You will drive original research to push the boundaries of voice AI. You will own research directions from problem identification to production impact by designing experiments and developing novel methods.

What you will do

• Identify high-leverage research problems across the voice AI stack
• Design and run rigorous experiments
• Translate experimental results into shipped improvements to models and product
• Work directly with research engineers to move from prototype to production
• Help set the scientific direction of the team

Required qualifications

• A track record of original research
• Deep expertise in at least one of: speech synthesis, ASR, audio modeling, language modeling, or multimodal learning
• Fluency in the math, probability, optimization, linear algebra
• Ability to reason about model behavior from first principles
• Ability to move fluidly between ideas and implementation
• Clear, precise written and verbal communication

Nice to have

• Publications at top venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, Interspeech, ICASSP, ACL, etc.)
• Experience with generative modeling, diffusion, flow matching, codec-based audio, or autoregressive models
• Familiarity with RLHF or preference optimization
• You are a former founder

Benefits

• Salary and equity
• Free breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided in the office
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision
• Regular off-sites and team celebrations
• 401(k)

About the company

Phonic is the speech-to-speech model company. Their mission is to make speaking with agents delightful using models that hear and answer in native audio.