Applied AI Engineer
$200k - $300k • SF Headquarters • FullTime
Posted 5mo ago
Job Location
SF Headquarters
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
AI Engineer
About the job
Salient is seeking a Member of Technical Staff to contribute to the development of speech and language models for their production voice agents. This role involves tackling complex, real-world challenges in speech and language modeling that go beyond academic benchmarks. It's a high-ownership position within a small, elite team, where you will be responsible for core system components from end to end, directly impacting revenue. The company is backed by prominent investors, has achieved significant ARR rapidly, and is a leader in automating financial services with AI.
Responsibilities
- Build and enhance production speech models and systems to improve real-time conversational quality.
- Post-train Large Language Models (LLMs) for voice agents used in consumer finance.
- Develop evaluation metrics, harnesses, and monitoring systems.
- Collaborate across models, data, infrastructure, and product teams to improve overall agent quality.
- Take ownership of major technical areas, from problem definition to production deployment, with significant autonomy.
Requirements
- Strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to build reliable production systems.
- Experience with speech modeling or LLM post-training.
- Familiarity with areas such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Text-to-Speech (TTS), turn detection, speech enhancement, multilingual speech, LLM post-training, or model evaluation.
- Ability to diagnose and resolve complex real-world model failures, translating them into practical improvements.
- High degree of ownership, fast execution speed, and comfort working in ambiguous technical domains.
- Exceptional engineers who are highly driven and excited to work on challenging AI problems.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous 401(k)
- Catered lunches