Applied Researcher, Audio
$200k - $350k • *HQ - San Francisco, CA • FullTime
Posted 1y ago
Job Location
*HQ - San Francisco, CA
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
AI Research Engineer
About the job
Cartesia is seeking a Senior Applied Researcher in Audio Understanding to tackle challenging problems in audio perception. This role goes beyond traditional speech recognition to encompass speaker identification, emotion interpretation, and understanding complex acoustic environments. You will lead high-impact projects critical to our mission of building truly aware AI, architecting and developing novel, large-scale models for complex audio understanding tasks and deploying them to production. You will also pioneer research in areas like self-supervised learning for audio, few-shot learning, and robust audio-visual perception, and set new standards for evaluating and benchmarking audio understanding systems. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in ASR, audio understanding, language modeling, or generative modeling, with experience in large-scale training, GPU/TPU acceleration, and model optimization, coupled with a strong applied mindset.
Responsibilities
- Architect and develop novel, large-scale models for complex audio understanding tasks (e.g., multi-speaker ASR, diarization, non-speech audio classification) and deploy them to production.
- Pioneer research in self-supervised learning for audio, few-shot learning, and robust audio-visual perception.
- Set new standards for evaluating and benchmarking audio understanding systems.
- Build large-scale pre-training and fine-tuning datasets for audio understanding capabilities.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in ASR, audio understanding, language modeling, or generative modeling.
- Experience with large-scale training, GPU/TPU acceleration, and model optimization.
- Strong applied mindset, balancing scientific novelty with product impact.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- Attractive equity package
- Fully covered medical insurance along with dental and vision for you and your family
- 9 weeks paternity leave
- 12 weeks maternity leave
- 401(k)
- Monthly commuter allowance
- Flexible PTO
- Provided meals and snacks daily