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Senior Research Engineer, Voice + Speech

New York City💼 Full-time💰 $200,000–$200,000🗓 2026-05-18 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead research and engineering to develop and deploy real-time voice agents that handle speech understanding, naturalness, turn-taking, and long-horizon task completion for enterprise customer support.

Role type

Senior Research Engineer (Voice + Speech)

Builds

Production-ready conversational AI agents for voice, chat, email, and SMS channels

Domain

Conversational AI, Voice Processing, Enterprise Customer Support

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLM post-training and production deployment, Python, ML tooling (training, evaluation, data pipelines), research-to-production execution, roadmap definition, cross-functional leadership

Preferred skills

None stated

Technologies

None explicitly listed beyond Python and general ML tooling

Responsibilities

Lead research and engineering for core conversational capabilities (instruction following, retrieval, memory, long-horizon tasks); Build and iterate end-to-end models and pipelines; Partner with platform engineers to integrate models into production; Define roadmaps and break down ambiguous research ideas; Mentor researchers and engineers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities

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