What You’ll Bring:

• Exceptional research/development experience with large scale audio models (>3B models and >500k hours data).
• Exceptional understanding and hands-on experience with transformer architectures and/or diffusion models (inc. distillation and streaming) and/or audio language modelling.
• Strong experience with multi-node and multi-gpu distributed model training.
• Strong software engineering skills with a proven track record of building complex systems
• Strong with PyTorch and performance work (profiling, CUDA/Triton/C++ as needed) and writing reliable production quality code.
• Shipped large scale speech/audio models to production.
• Background in working with large-scale ML data.
• Ability to iterate on data,, and triangulate quality using subjective and objective signals.
• Notable publications and/or open source contributions in speech/audio/ML.
• Experience with voice-cloning, speech-control, voice-generation.

Preferred Experience:

• Shipped large scale speech/audio models (TTS/VC/ASR) to production.
• Work on large-scale ML systems.
• Experience with audio language modelling, transformer architectures.
• Experience with voice-cloning, speech-control, voice-generation.
• Background in processing large-scale ML data.
• Publications or notable open-source in speech/audio/ML.

Compensation:

The anticipated annual base salary range for this role is between $200,000-$220,000 (€170,000-€190,000). When determining compensation, a number of factors will be considered, including skills, experience, job scope, location, and competitive compensation market data.

Benefits for U.S.-based roles:

• Competitive salary and generous company equity
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance – 99.99% of premiums covered by Cantina
• 42 days of paid time off, including:
  • 15 PTO days
  • 10 sick days
  • 15 company holidays
  • 2 floating holidays
• Generous parental leave & fertility support
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Lifestyle spending account – $500/month to use however you’d like
• Complimentary lunch and snacks for in-office employees
• One Medical membership, and more!