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Bland

Machine Learning Researcher, Audio

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$140K - $250K/yr

Machine Learning Researcher, Audio Location: San Francisco, CA or Remote About Bland At Bland.com, our mission is to empower enterprises to build AI phone agents at scale. Based in San Francisco, we ...

Hive

Machine Learning Manager

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$180K - $250K/yr

Knowledgeable in at least one focus area of machine learning, such as computer vision, audio, or NLP * 2+ years experience managing machine learning teams * You have an ability to understand and make ...

Google

Applied AI Engineer, Audio, XR

Mountain View, CA · On-site

Innovate in audio machine learning through fundamental and applied research, advancing the state-of-the-art in audio playback, capture, generation, and editing. * Research and develop novel ML models ...

Hive

Machine Learning Manager

San Francisco, CA

$180K - $250K/yr

Knowledgeable in at least one focus area of machine learning, such as computer vision, audio, or NLP * 2+ years experience managing machine learning teams * You have an ability to understand and make ...

Hive

Machine Learning Manager

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$180K - $250K/yr

Knowledgeable in at least one focus area of machine learning, such as computer vision, audio, or NLP * 2+ years experience managing machine learning teams * You have an ability to understand and make ...

Roku

Software Engineer, Machine Learning

San Jose, CA · On-site

$135K - $185K/yr

You will explore Picture Quality (PQ) and Audio Quality (AQ) improvements using AI in a resource ... Hands-on experience with Machine Learning / Deep Learning frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch

femtoAI

Audio Deep Learning Engineer

San Bruno, CA · On-site

Design, develop, and deploy deep-learning-based and classical DSP audio algorithms for our SPU ... Desired Skills and Experience Deep learning, Machine learning, DSP, Python, PyTorch Benefits ...

Hive

Machine Learning Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$120K - $180K/yr

You have successfully trained and deployed a deep learning machine model (image, NLP, video, or audio) into production, with measurably improved performance over baseline, either in industry or as a ...

Hive

Machine Learning Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$120K - $180K/yr

You have successfully trained and deployed a deep learning machine model (image, NLP, video, or audio) into production, with measurably improved performance over baseline, either in industry or as a ...

TEKsystems

Machine Learning Engineer

San Diego, CA · Hybrid

$70 - $95/hr

Contract-to-Hire (6-month initial engagement) Pay: $70-75 hr/w2 Location: San Diego, CA (Hybrid ... Production Machine Learning Deployments * Model Monitoring, Observability, and Optimization ...

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TEKsystems

Machine Learning Engineer

San Diego, CA · Hybrid

$70 - $95/hr

Contract-to-Hire (6-month initial engagement) Pay: $70-75 hr/w2 Location: San Diego, CA (Hybrid ... Production Machine Learning Deployments * Model Monitoring, Observability, and Optimization ...

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AspectContract Audio Machine LearningContract Data Scientist
Required CredentialsDegree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field; experience with machine learning frameworksDegree in Data Science, Statistics, or related; strong programming skills
Work EnvironmentFocus on audio data, signal processing, and machine learning modelsBroader data analysis, statistical modeling, and data visualization
Industry UsageMedia, entertainment, speech recognition, audio analysisFinance, healthcare, marketing, and various industries requiring data insights

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Machine Learning Researcher, Audio

Machine Learning Researcher, Audio

Bland

San Francisco, CA • On-site

$140K - $250K/yr

Full-time

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Re-posted 18 days ago

Job description

Machine Learning Researcher, Audio
Location: San Francisco, CA or Remote
About Bland
At Bland.com, our mission is to empower enterprises to build AI phone agents at scale. Based in San Francisco, we are a fast-growing team reimagining how customers interact with businesses through voice. We have raised $65 million from leading Silicon Valley investors, including Emergence Capital, Scale Venture Partners, Y Combinator, and founders of Twilio, Affirm, and ElevenLabs.
Voice is quickly becoming the primary interface between businesses and their customers. We are building the models and infrastructure that make those interactions feel natural, reliable, and genuinely human.
The Role: Machine Learning Researcher, Audio
As a Machine Learning Researcher at Bland, you'll be working on foundational research and development across the core components of our voice stack: speech-to-text, large language models, neural audio codecs, and text-to-speech. Your work will define how our agents understand, reason, and speak in real time at enterprise scale.
This is not a narrow research role. You will take ideas from theory to large-scale training to production inference systems serving millions of calls per day. You will design new modeling approaches, validate them with rigorous experimentation, and collaborate with engineering teams to deploy them into real customer environments.
What You Will Do
Build and Scale Next-Generation TTS Systems
  • Design and train large scale text-to-speech models capable of expressive, controllable, human-sounding output.
  • Develop neural audio codec-based TTS architectures for efficient, high-fidelity generation.
  • Improve prosody modeling, question inflection, emotional expression, and multi-speaker robustness.
  • Optimize for real-time, low-latency inference in production.

Advance Speech-to-Text Modeling
  • Build and fine-tune large scale ASR systems robust to accents, noise, telephony artifacts, and code switching.
  • Leverage self-supervised pretraining and large-scale weak supervision.
  • Improve transcription accuracy for real-world enterprise scenarios, including structured extraction and conversational nuance.

Pioneer Neural Audio Codecs
  • Research and implement neural audio codecs that achieve extreme compression with minimal perceptual loss.
  • Explore discrete and continuous latent representations for scalable speech modeling.
  • Design codec architectures that enable downstream generative modeling and controllable synthesis.

Develop Scalable Training Pipelines
  • Curate and process massive audio datasets across languages, speakers, and environments.
  • Design staged training curricula and data filtering strategies.
  • Scale training across distributed GPU clusters focusing on cost, throughput, and reliability.

Run Rigorous Experiments
  • Design ablation studies that isolate the impact of architectural changes.
  • Measure improvements using both objective metrics and perceptual evaluations.
  • Validate ideas quickly through focused experiments that confirm or eliminate hypotheses.

What Makes You a Great Fit
Deep Research Foundations
  • Experience with self-supervised learning, multimodal modeling, or generative modeling.
  • Ability to derive new formulations and implement them efficiently.

Expertise in Voice Modeling
  • Hands-on experience building or scaling TTS, STT, or neural audio codec systems.
  • Familiarity with large scale speech datasets and real-world audio variability.
  • Strong intuition for audio quality, prosody, and conversational dynamics.

Systems and Hardware Awareness
  • Experience training and serving large models on modern accelerators.
  • Knowledge of inference optimization techniques, including quantization, kernel optimization, and memory efficiency.
  • Understanding of real-time constraints in telephony or streaming environments.

Experimental Rigor
  • Track record of designing controlled experiments and meaningful ablations.
  • Comfortable working with both offline benchmarks and live production metrics.
  • Ability to move quickly from hypothesis to validation.

Builder Mentality
  • Comfortable in fast-moving startup environments.
  • Strong ownership mindset from research through deployment.
  • Excited by ambiguous, unsolved problems.

How You Show Up
  • You treat unsolved problems as opportunities to invent new paradigms.
  • You identify the single experiment that can validate an idea in days, not months.
  • You measure everything and let data drive decisions.
  • You are obsessed with making voice agents sound truly human.
  • You use AI tools aggressively to amplify your own impact and accelerate research cycles.

Bonus Points
  • Experience with large scale distributed training.
  • Research publications or open source contributions in speech or language AI.
  • Background in real-time speech systems or telephony.
  • PhD in ML, AI, or a related field, or equivalent research impact.

Benefits and Compensation
  • Healthcare, dental, vision, all the good stuff
  • Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company
  • Every tool you need to succeed
  • Beautiful office in Jackson Square, SF with rooftop views
  • Competitive salary: $160,000 to $250,000

If you are energized by building and scaling TTS models, pioneering neural audio codecs, and pushing the boundaries of speech-to-text systems, we would love to hear from you.

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