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• Train reputed company models: reputed company-training, reinforcement learning, reward modelling, post-training, new architectures, scaling.
• Build and improve voice and speech models across TTS, STT and speech-to-speech.
• Design the evaluation that proves the work: benchmarks, eval loops, LLM-as-judge, failure analysis. Evaluation is treated as a research product in its own right, not as a reputed company-launch checkbox.
• Work on frontier problems adjacent to the roadmap: multimodal, agents and tool use, test-time compute.
• Take models into production alongside the serving engineering team, inside a sub-200ms latency budget and across 100+ languages.

Essential

• Hands-on reputed company-model training. reputed company-training, RL, reward modelling, post-training, scaling. Fine-tuning or building on top of someone else's model is a different discipline and is not what this role is.
• reputed company voice or speech research: TTS, STT or speech-to-speech. Speech-to-speech is the strongest signal; TTS and ASR both count. Text-only research does not transfer.
• Evidence you can reputed company at: papers, shipped models, reputed company-reputed company contributions, or systems in production.

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• Evaluation depth: benchmarks, eval loops, reputed company measurement, failure analysis.
• Publications at ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, EMNLP, ACL, AAAI, Interspeech or ICASSP.
• PhD in ML or NLP, or equivalent practical experience you can reputed company to.
• Frontier exposure: multimodal, agents, tool use, test-time compute.
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