Senior Applied Researcher, Audio Understanding

Cartesia • San Francisco, CA

110d

About The Position

As a Senior Applied Researcher in Audio Understanding, you will be responsible for tackling the most challenging problems in audio perception. Your work will go beyond traditional speech recognition to encompass the full spectrum of audio perception, from identifying speakers and interpreting emotion to understanding complex acoustic environments. You will lead high-impact projects that are critical to our mission of building truly aware AI.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in ASR, audio understanding, language modeling, or generative modeling more broadly.
• Experience with large-scale training, GPU/TPU acceleration, and model optimization.
• Strong applied mindset—able to balance scientific novelty with product impact.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop novel, large-scale models for complex audio understanding tasks, including multi-speaker ASR, diarization, and non-speech audio classification and deploy them to production at scale.
• Pioneer research in areas like self-supervised learning for audio, few-shot learning, and robust audio-visual perception.
• Set new standards for how we evaluate and benchmark our audio understanding systems.
• Build large scale pre-training and fine-tuning datasets for audio understanding capabilities.

Benefits

• Lunch, dinner and snacks at the office.
• Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees.
• 401(k).
• Relocation and immigration support.
• Your own personal Yoshi.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 51-100 employees