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Pulled from our last two weekly digests. Each role links straight to the company's own posting.

Member of Technical Staff, Post-Training, Applied (Audio)Posted Oct 13
Liquid AI · San Francisco, Boston or remote (hybrid) · compensation not listed (base + equity)
Adapts LFM2.5-Audio, Liquid's 1.5B-parameter model that handles speech-to-speech, ASR and TTS in one network, for enterprise customers. The core problem is voice-driven function calling: turning a spoken request into the right API call with the right parameters, then confirming it back in speech. You'd own the data generation, SFT, preference alignment and RL, and the task-specific evals. Requires hands-on LLM post-training. Speech experience is a plus, not a requirement.
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Research Scientist, Wearables AIPosted Oct 13
Meta · New York, NY + 5 other locations · $122K–$181K + bonus + equity
Speech and LLM research for the assistant on Ray-Ban Meta glasses and future wearables, in collaboration with Meta Superintelligence Labs. The work spans on-device and server models tuned for natural voice interaction. Requires a PhD, and you can apply while still finishing it. Preferred: large-scale ASR, TTS or LLM work and papers at ICASSP, Interspeech or NeurIPS. The pay range suggests an entry research level, so it's a realistic first industry job after a speech PhD.
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AI Communication Research ScientistPosted Oct 13
VinMotion (Vingroup) · Cypress, CA · salary negotiable + performance bonus
Conversational AI for VinMotion's humanoid robots: dialogue generation, speech synthesis, Whisper-class ASR, and multimodal models that combine speech with vision (including lip reading) and gesture. Asks for a PhD or master's and 3+ years of research in generative AI, NLP or speech, with strong ASR and TTS skills. Publishing at ICASSP, ACL and NeurIPS is part of the job. VinMotion is the robotics arm of Vietnam's Vingroup.
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Sr. AI Voice EngineerPosted Oct 13
Hankey Group · Los Angeles, CA (onsite, no relocation) · $300K
Builds real-time voice-to-voice AI agents for customer service, sales and finance at the Los Angeles holding company behind Westlake Financial. The work covers STT/TTS integration, latency and streaming, telephony, and agent features such as memory, tool calling and RAG. 5+ years required. Note the stack: Python and C#/.NET, with Azure AI and Azure OpenAI listed as pluses. The posting lists a single figure rather than a range.
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Senior Full Stack Engineer, Solve VoicePosted Oct 13
Zendesk · Austin, Madison or San Francisco (hybrid) · $145K–$217K + bonus
Builds the backend for Zendesk's real-time voice AI agent: telephony, WebRTC and audio integrations with outside speech and AI services, plus turn-taking, interruptions and handing calls off to humans smoothly. Some front-end work as needed. Requires 3+ years, Python or similar with async architecture, and real-time or event-driven systems (WebRTC, SIP, streaming APIs). SIP, media servers and ASR/TTS integration are pluses. The posting has been up 30+ days. Its page heading says "Senior Backend Software Engineer," but the description is for the full-stack role.
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AI Engineer, Voice and RealtimePosted Oct 13
Obble · Remote (worldwide) · compensation not listed
Obble runs candidate screening interviews over live calls. This role owns the real-time interview worker (audio handling, STT, model calls and turn-taking within a latency budget), plus versioned prompts and an evaluation harness that has to prove a change made the interviewer better, not just different. Wants strong Python, async/streaming experience and LLMs shipped in production. WebRTC or LiveKit is a plus. It's a small company, and applying takes four fields and a resume.
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Research Engineer, Machine Learning SystemsPosted Oct 13
Deepgram · Remote (US), Ann Arbor or San Francisco · $150K–$250K base + 10% bonus + equity
Works on the Research team to speed up how Deepgram trains its STT and TTS models: data preparation, high-throughput distributed training pipelines, automated evaluation, and orchestration and experiment tracking (Kubernetes, Prefect, MLflow). It also includes building internal tools that let non-technical colleagues use those systems. Requires hands-on experience with the ML research pipeline in STT or another speech domain, and data engineering for unstructured audio.
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Software Engineer, Edge AIPosted Oct 13
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies · Palo Alto, CA (hybrid) · $116.3K–$159.95K + 5% bonus + RSUs
An early-career C++/Rust role on in-vehicle software for Rivian R1/R2 and Volkswagen Group platforms. One of four possible starting projects is deploying speech recognition, TTS and wake-word models on the car's NPU against per-platform latency and accuracy targets. The others are telemetry, upload paths for ADAS and camera data, and the customer features built on them, so speech isn't guaranteed. Asks for 2–4 years or a strong project record. ONNX Runtime, TensorRT, TFLite or ExecuTorch, and VAD or wake-word experience are pluses.
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Sr. Signal Processing Research Engineer IIPosted Oct 13
Starkey · Eden Prairie, MN (onsite) · $124K–$189K + bonus
DSP and ML research for AI-enabled hearing aids in Starkey's Algorithms Group, taking algorithms from literature review and prototypes through lab and field evaluation into firmware requirements and products. Requires a master's in EE (or a PhD plus 3 years), with advanced DSP, acoustics and closed-loop acoustic control. MATLAB, Python and C/C++ are all expected. Psychoacoustics or cochlear-implant knowledge is a plus. The posting went up August 5, so it has been open a while.
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Principal Research & Engineering, Realtime Voice AIPosted Oct 6
Inflection AI · Palo Alto, CA · $400K–$550K base + equity
A hands-on lead who sets the technical roadmap for Inflection's real-time voice stack, the voice side of Pi. That covers streaming ASR, TTS, speech-to-speech, speech LLMs, turn-taking, barge-in and latency, plus build-vs-buy-vs-train decisions, with a 1,000-GPU cluster for experiments. The posting asks for evaluation that goes past WER, scoring interruption handling, emotional fit and task success. You'd also mentor a team while staying close to the code.
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Speech Science Technology ManagerPosted Oct 6
Motorola Solutions (Theatro) · Richardson, TX · $130K–$178K + incentive bonus
Leads the speech team behind Theatro, Motorola's voice-driven communication platform for retail store staff. The role architects the real-time pipeline (voice-command detection, VAD, ASR, TTS, noise suppression, echo cancellation, keyword spotting) and tunes ASR engines such as Whisper, Deepgram, Cerence and Sensory for a fixed command set. It also works with hardware teams on microphone arrays. Requires 7+ years in speech with at least 2 in management. The posting has been up 30+ days, so apply soon.
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Research Scientist II, Speech AI LabPosted Oct 6
Adobe Research · San Francisco, CA · $187.1K–$270.95K in California ($142.7K–$270.95K US range) + bonus
A senior audio research scientist for Adobe's speech generative AI and multimodal work, covering speech and audio generation, audio representations and large-scale training. The lab expects independent research leadership: first-author papers, patents and prototypes that product teams can ship. PhD preferred (a research-focused master's is accepted), and 3+ years of industry research is strongly preferred.
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Research Engineer, Language — Wearables Polyglot AIPosted Oct 6
Meta · Redmond, WA + 3 other locations · $154K–$217K + bonus + equity
Voice LLMs for speech recognition, translation and synthesis on Reality Labs wearables, deployed both on servers and on the device itself. Datasets and evaluation frameworks are part of the job, not an afterthought. Requires 5+ years building speech or language models and shipping them to production. Multilingual and edge-deployment experience are listed as pluses.
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Research EngineerPosted Oct 6
Sesame · San Francisco, Bellevue or New York (onsite) · $190K–$320K + stock options
An evaluation-first role on the team building Sesame's voice companion. You'd own the offline and live eval pipelines for its speech and multimodal models, build the dataset-curation tooling and monitoring, and scale training and inference for LLM-sized workloads. Requires expert-level PyTorch and evaluation metrics that "actually predict user happiness." This is a different opening from the Research Scientist role we listed on September 8.
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Audio ML Engineer (Research)Posted Oct 6
HARMAN · Northridge, CA (hybrid) · $134.25K–$196.9K
Perception models for HARMAN's Intelligent Audio research group: quality prediction, artifact detection, acoustic scene classification and listener-preference modeling. The models have to fit embedded and cloud budgets, using quantization, pruning and distillation where needed. Asks for 5+ years of applied ML, at least 2 of them on audio, speech or acoustics. The posting says shipped product impact counts for more than credentials.
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Senior Speech Software EngineerPosted Oct 6
ASAPP · New York or Mountain View (hybrid) · $215K–$235K + performance bonus
Half model tuning, half infrastructure. On the model side you'd adapt ASR and TTS for noisy call-center audio and improve TTS prosody and number pronunciation. On the systems side you'd build the multi-threaded server frameworks that run thousands of concurrent streaming ASR → LLM → TTS sessions. Requires 5+ years of distributed systems in Go or Python and hands-on ASR/TTS work. You'll need to know your codecs too: Opus, G.711, jitter and packet loss.
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Machine Learning Engineer, Real-Time Speech TranslationPosted Oct 6
LILT · Washington, D.C. or Boston ($129K–$161K), Indianapolis ($120K–$150K) · hybrid · US citizenship required
Owns the backend for LILT's new live-translation product. The ASR and MT models already exist; the job is wiring them into a low-latency streaming system on Ray Serve and GPU Kubernetes, including confidence scoring that sends uncertain segments to human linguists. Requires 3+ years of production Python with asyncio and hands-on WebSocket/gRPC streaming. The first languages are Japanese, Korean and English. US citizenship is a contract requirement.
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Senior Software Engineer, Voice AIPosted Oct 6
Cloaked · New York, NY (hybrid) · $200K–$230K + equity + bonus
Works on Call Guard, an AI agent that answers unknown callers, holds a live conversation and blocks scams. It has screened 50M+ calls so far. You'd cut end-to-end STT → LLM → TTS latency and build defenses against voice-cloned attackers. Wants 5+ years and production experience with Whisper or Deepgram, ElevenLabs or Cartesia, and LiveKit or Pipecat. Telephony and SIP experience is a plus.
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Product Engineer, Systems ArchitectPosted Oct 6
Wispr · San Francisco (onsite) · $220K–$300K (L5) or $270K–$350K (L6) + equity · visa sponsorship
Owns the detection, inference, state and delivery systems behind Wispr Flow, its system-wide dictation app, and Notetaker. A lot of the work is proving those systems are correct when no ground truth exists. The posting says speech experience is not required, and it names signal processing, ranking, fraud and ML evaluation as backgrounds that translate. That makes it one of the few ways into a voice company without a speech background.
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Technical GTM Enablement ManagerPosted Oct 6
Deepgram · Remote (US) · compensation not listed
Deepgram's first hire in this role. You'd build the onboarding, playbooks and certifications that bring its sales engineers, solutions architects and customer engineers up to speed. That includes standards for technical discovery, proof-of-concept evaluations, architecture guidance and handoffs, plus readiness work before each product launch. Requires 5+ years in customer-facing technical roles and hands-on fluency with APIs and SDKs. You don't need to write production code, but "hand-waving does not pass." Experience with STT, TTS or voice agents is a plus. A good fit if you came up through solutions engineering and want a non-engineering role at a speech company.
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