Research Engineer (Speech AI/ML) at Renaissance Philanthropy
Core
Build production ASR and speech-processing systems to assess and support early reading from children's speech in real classrooms.
Role type
Senior IC research engineer (speech AI/ML)
Builds
Tools for assessing oral reading, spoken vocabulary, and whole-class instruction
Domain
Education technology + Speech AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
ASR system design, data-to-model pipeline (collection, annotation, fine-tuning, evaluation, deployment), noisy multi-speaker environment handling, child voice processing
Preferred skills
Experience with frontier speech problems, high-stakes educational applications
Technologies
ASR frameworks, data annotation tools, model deployment platforms
Responsibilities
Operate production speech-processing systems, manage full data-to-model lifecycle, develop models for noisy multi-speaker classroom environments
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC