Senior Researcher

The role

You will research and develop new methods for Speech AI. You will work on training, fine-tuning, and analyzing foundational speech models and building scalable tooling.

What you will do

• Research and develop new methods that push the frontier of Speech AI.
• Improve model data by investigating quality issues and building tooling.
• Analyze production model accuracy and build evaluation harnesses.
• Partner with researchers and engineers to turn prototypes into production-ready systems.
• Find and fix performance bottlenecks across the training stack.

Required qualifications

• Hands-on experience training or adapting frontier speech or multimodal language models.
• Discipline in measurement and analysis.
• Appetite for the whole pipeline.
• Enthusiasm for building and sharing tools.
• Self-direction.
• Strong Python skills.

About the company

AssemblyAI builds Voice AI models powering voice applications. The company is a capital-efficient AI company with a flat culture.