CareerPlan

Research Staff, Voice AI Foundations [Remote]

Melbourne, VictoriaRemoteFull-time2026-10-12 → 2026-10-22

Core

Pioneering Latent Space Models (LSMs) to solve fundamental data, scale, and cost challenges in building robust, contextualized voice AI.

Role type

Research Staff, Voice AI Foundations

Builds

Next-generation neural audio codecs, steerable generative models, embedding systems, synthetic audio data, and multimodal speech-to-speech systems.

Domain

Voice AI, Audio Processing, Foundation Models

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Statistical learning theory, foundation model architectures, bridging theory and practice, data pipeline design, controlled experimental design, model optimization for hardware, open-source contributions, research publications

Preferred skills

Self-supervised learning, multimodal learning, hardware constraints knowledge, scalable systems design

Technologies

Neural audio codecs, generative models, embedding systems, latent recombination, multimodal speech-to-speech systems

Responsibilities

Build neural audio codecs for low bit-rate compression and high fidelity; Pioneer steerable generative models for human speech synthesis; Develop embedding systems to factorize codec latent space; Leverage latent recombination to generate synthetic audio data; Design model architectures and training schemes for cost-efficient training and real-time inference.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC