Hybrid Tech Lead – ASR, TTS, Speech LLM, IC, Mentor

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About the role

  • Lead the end-to-end technical development of speech models (ASR, TTS, Speech-LLM) — from architecture, training strategy, and evaluation to production deployment.
  • Act as an individual contributor and mentor, guiding a small team working on model training, synthetic data generation, active learning, and inference optimization for healthcare applications.
  • Own the technical roadmap for STT/TTS/Speech LLM model training: from model selection → fine-tuning → deployment.
  • Evaluate and benchmark open-source models using internal test sets for WER, latency, and entity accuracy.
  • Design and review data pipelines for synthetic and real data generation.
  • Architect and optimize training recipes and lead integration with Triton Inference Server.
  • Implement Language Model biasing APIs and guide evaluation cycles.

Requirements

  • M.S. / Ph.D. in Computer Science, Speech Processing, or related field.
  • 7–10 years of experience in applied ML, at least 3 in speech or multimodal AI.
  • Track record of shipping production ASR/TTS models or inference systems at scale.
  • Deep expertise in speech models (ASR, TTS, Speech LLM) and training frameworks (PyTorch, NeMo, ESPnet, Fairseq).
  • Proven experience with streaming RNN-T / CTC architectures, LoRA/adapters, and TensorRT optimization.
  • Strong understanding of telephony noise, codecs, and real-world audio variability.
  • Experience deploying models with Triton Inference Server, Kubernetes, and GPU scaling.
  • Hands-on with evaluation metrics (WER, F1 on entities, latency p50/p95).
  • Strong mentorship and code-review discipline.

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development opportunities

Job title

Tech Lead – ASR, TTS, Speech LLM, IC, Mentor

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

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