Director, Text-to-Speech Synthesis Research
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
Director of Research (Hands-on IC leadership)
Builds
Production-grade TTS models and voice agents
Domain
AI / Machine Learning / Speech Synthesis
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
TTS and speech generation expertise, neural audio modeling, research strategy, team leadership, experimental design, technical tradeoff analysis
Preferred skills
Generative audio models at production scale, scaling AI research orgs, sophisticated evaluation systems, external publications/patents
Technologies
Neural audio modeling frameworks, TTS stacks, large-scale training infrastructure
Responsibilities
Define TTS research roadmap and technical bets, drive advances in prosody/expressiveness/multilingual generation, review research and design experiments, build evaluation and benchmarking systems, lead individual contributors and tech lead managers, partner with engineering on ship-readiness
Seniority
Director, hands-on leadership
