Director
Core
Own the Text-to-Speech (TTS) research program end-to-end, setting strategy, technical direction, and model roadmaps to advance state-of-the-art speech generation and ship production models.
Role type
Senior IC Director of Research (TTS & Generative Audio)
Builds
Production-grade TTS models, voice agents, and neural audio systems
Domain
AI / Machine Learning / Speech Technology
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
TTS and speech generation expertise, neural audio modeling, research strategy under uncertainty, team leadership for researchers, technical tradeoff analysis, AI-first workflow integration
Preferred skills
Large-scale model training experience, scaling AI research organizations, sophisticated evaluation systems, external publications or patents, fast-moving startup environment experience
Technologies
Neural audio modeling frameworks, large-scale training infrastructure, evaluation and benchmarking tools
Responsibilities
Define TTS research roadmap and technical bets, drive advances in prosody, expressiveness, and multilingual generation, review research and design experiments, build evaluation metrics, lead and develop researchers and tech leads, partner with engineering and product leadership
Seniority
Director, hands-on technical leadership
