Staff Research Engineer, Text to Speech, Innovation

In this role, you will:

• 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

We would love to hear from you if:

• 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

We’d be especially excited if you:

• 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

 

This role is available throughout France. We're also open to Germany. Employees within a 100-kilometer radius of our Paris or Berlin office are expected to work from the office on three pre-scheduled “core days” each month to encourage cross-team connection and in-person collaboration. Aside from these office-specific “core days,” this job allows for virtual/remote, hybrid, and in-office workplace setting options. In addition to salary and equity, you will receive comprehensive healthcare, paid time off, and other benefits. Our recruiting team will provide a specific salary range based on location and years of experience.

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