Speech Research Lead

Techire Ai • San Francisco, CA

5d • $400,000 • Remote

About The Position

Want to build speech AI that actually sounds human? You'll be joining a well-funded speech AI startup with strong customer traction. They're building ultra-realistic voice technology that handles natural laughter, breathing, seamless language switching, and accurate pronunciation across languages and accents. As their Speech Research Lead, you'll have the resources and real-world applications to work on frontier speech research: real-time two-way conversations with emotional awareness, novel architectures that balance speed with control, and advancing their multi-lingual capabilities.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in speech synthesis or generative modeling across multiple modalities
• Strong background in LLMs and modern language model architectures
• Proven ability to take research from concept to deployed systems
• Experience training large-scale models in production environments

Nice To Haves

• Understanding of cross-lingual speech challenges and linguistic fundamentals
• Published research in speech or generative modeling
• Ideally based in San Francisco but open to remote internationally.

Responsibilities

• Lead SOTA research advancing their core speech models and product capabilities
• Oversee large-scale model training and data system development
• Lead and grow the ML team during a critical scaling phase

Benefits

• Competitive compensation up to $400K base (depending on experience) plus substantial equity package.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed