Staff Research Engineer, SoundHound AI

Text-to-Speech

Salary not provided

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

C++

Expert level

Berlin

Paris

Remote from France, Germany

More information about location

Conversational AI platform

Job no longer available

Conversational AI platform

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechSaaS

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

C++

Expert level

Berlin

Paris

Remote from France, Germany

More information about location

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechSaaS

Company mission

To create a voice AI platform that exceeds human capabilities and brings value and delight via an ecosystem of billions of products enhanced by innovation and monetization opportunities.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You have a proven track record of doing cutting edge research on TTS (published papers in top-tier conferences and journals, submitted patents, …)
You have at least ten years of working in academia or industry on TTS or related topics such as voice conversion/cloning, emotion recognition, style transfer, vocoders, ASR, voice biometrics
You have contributions to open-source TTS projects or communities
You possess excellent Python and C++ skills, and are familiar with the latest tools, standards and best practices
You have a holistic mindset, and thrive on owning the entire technical stack for products with research and production components
You enjoy working with cross-functional teams, including linguists, software engineers and SREs, and are able to communicate complex technical concepts clearly

Desirable

Are familiar with cloud and MLOps technologies such as kubernetes, docker
Have experience in deploying ML models at scale and are driven by performance and cost efficiency
Are familiar with diffusion models

What the job involves

Conduct research on TTS
Work with language specialist and labelers to organize the collection and maintenance of necessary data
Implement and train State Of The Art TTS models
Work with the systems and infrastructure team to produce production grade implementation, integration and deployment of those models, serving millions of queries a month

Application process

[Please note that if your application is advanced, the initial step will be an invitation to partake in a pre-assessment.]

Our take

The world is becoming ever more voice-enabled, and SoundHound AI have been working for over a decade on their voice AI and conversational intelligence technology to stay ahead. The applications for top tier tech of this sort are vast, from automotive innovation through to restaurant management, and SoundHound AI is firmly leading the pack.

SoundHound AI has developed products with unrivalled accuracy across nearly two dozen languages, giving them a real edge over Google and Amazon’s competing products. To consolidate this lead, the company also made a number of strategic, big-name partnerships to broaden their products’ uptake, with the likes of Tencent, Hyundai, Nvidia, and Samsung counted among them.

By keeping its products customizable and broadly applicable, SoundHound AI was successful in its IPO bid, which will cement its position globally as the sector continues to develop. Although taking a hit from the poor economic climate, alongside many of its fellows, the company has secured post-IPO funds. And it paid off its post-IPO debt in 2024, making it lighter on its feet as it captures new markets and customers in the voice-enabled AI sector.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

-29% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.4)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

May 2018

$100m

LATE VC

Jan 2017

$75m

SERIES D

Total funding: $215m

Company benefits

Competitive Salary
Team Events & Happy Hours
Comprehensive Medical Insurance
Employee Recognition
Equity Plans
Catered Lunches & Tasty Snacks

Company HQ

Santa Clara, CA

Leadership

Keyvan Mohajer

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Having taken a PhD at Stanford, Keyvan worked as CTO of InsuranceHotline.com before founding ZumoSoftware, where they spent 4 years as CTO. They founded SoundHound in December 2004, while at Stanford, and have served since as President and CEO.

Majid Emami

(Co-Founder, CSO & SVP of Engineering)

After graduating Stanford University, they went onto co-found SoundHound as VP of Engineering, before becoming CSO and SVP of Engineering in 2022.

James Hom

(Co-Founder & CPO)

Having earned their Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Stanford University, they went onto co-found SoundHound. First, they lead all product development as VP of Products, before becoming CPO.

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