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As a Founding Audio AI Research Engineer , you will drive our research roadmap—shaping strategy, leading model development, and working closely with researchers to deliver high-quality data. You will:

Develop and publish benchmarks and research to evaluate audio and speech quality, collaborating with academic and industry partners to advance the field and set new standards. Work with researchers across leading AI labs and organizations to build out our data roadmap that will enable future speech models and applications. Collaborate with our product and operations team to design and conduct experiments that collect high-quality audio data to fuel your cutting-edge research. Set strategic and technical direction around our R&D roadmap based on latest research.

Who We're Looking For

Ph.D. or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with a focus on speech or audio. Experience with training and evaluating generative audio models. A strong research track record with peer-reviewed publications in leading venues related to speech and audio processing (e.g., Interspeech, ICASSP, NeurIPS, ICML). Collaborative mindset and experience leading research agendas with product and other teams. Experience in dataset design and conducting empirical analysis of audio data distributions, identifying biases or gaps, and proposing strategies for improved dataset design or collection. Research-oriented software engineering skills, including fluency with technologies like PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn and Pandas.

Bonus points if you have

Leadership experience in a research setting. Prior startup experience.

Compensation And Benefits

Rapid career growth, at one of the fastest growing Series A companies, within a new and booming industry. Competitive salary and equity package. Flexible PTO policy. Top-notch health, dental, and vision coverage with 100% company reimbursement for most plans. Paid lunch and dinner in the office, every day through DoorDash. 401k access. Seniority level Seniority levelMid-Senior level Employment type Employment typeFull-time Job function Job functionEngineering and Information Technology IndustriesSoftware Development Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at David AI by 2x Sign in to set job alerts for “Artificial Intelligence Engineer” roles. San Francisco, CA $135,000.00-$200,000.00 2 months ago San Francisco, CA $135,000.00-$170,000.00 3 months ago San Francisco, CA $170,000.00-$250,000.00 5 days ago San Francisco, CA $170,000.00-$270,000.00 5 days ago Redwood City, CA $80,000.00-$120,000.00 4 months ago San Francisco, CA $130,000.00-$230,000.00 4 months ago Research Engineer - Machine Learning (ML) San Francisco, CA $150,000.00-$225,000.00 4 months ago San Francisco, CA $150,000.00-$300,000.00 8 months ago San Francisco, CA $150,000.00-$250,000.00 2 months ago Machine Learning Engineer, Stripe Capital San Francisco, CA $140,000.00-$160,000.00 3 months ago Machine Learning Engineer, AI/ML for Drug DiscoverySoftware Engineer, Python - AI Training (Freelance, Remote) Redwood City, CA $123,000.00-$185,000.00 6 months ago Machine Learning Engineer for Game Technology San Francisco, CA $150,000.00-$200,000.00 5 months ago San Francisco, CA $140,000.00-$200,000.00 3 months ago San Francisco, CA $100,000.00-$300,000.00 10 months ago Sr. Software Engineer, ML Platform - Slack San Francisco, CA $160,000.00-$240,000.00 2 months ago Applied AI Engineer & Researcher - Post Training We’re unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI.

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