Principal Machine Learning Engineer (Speech AI)

TL;DR

Principal Machine Learning Engineer (Speech AI): Building and scaling production-grade speech systems with an accent on TTS and voice generation. Focus on training, fine-tuning, and deploying ML models into real-world production environments while ensuring low latency and high reliability.

Location: Remote (Europe / US)

Company

A startup founded by industry professionals with experience in building award-winning AI-driven products for BigTech corporations.

What you will do

• Develop and improve advanced TTS and voice generation models.
• Train, fine-tune, and evaluate speech models for production use.
• Bridge the gap between research ideas and scalable production systems.
• Collaborate across research, engineering, and product teams.
• Define technical direction and establish ML best practices.
• Drive execution in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Speech AI, with a primary focus on TTS or voice generation.
• Hands-on experience in training and fine-tuning TTS models.
• Proven track record of deploying ML models into production environments.
• Strong understanding of inference, latency, scaling, monitoring, and reliability.
• Solid ML background and strong software engineering skills.
• Must be based in Europe or the US.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a team of seasoned professionals from industry-leading companies.
• Opportunity to work on diverse projects for prominent clients or proprietary products.
• Exposure to cutting-edge technologies including Computer Vision, LLMs, and Diffusion models.
• Rapid career progression in a startup environment with the stability of major clients.
• Flexible remote work opportunities.