Tech Lead — ASR / TTS / Speech LLM (IC + Mentor)

About the role

As a Tech Lead specializing in ASR, TTS, and Speech LLM, you will spearhead the technical development of speech models. This involves everything from architectural design and training strategies to evaluation and production deployment. This role is a blend of individual contribution and mentorship.

What you'll do

• Prepare and maintain synthetic and real training datasets
• STT/TTS/Speech LLM and LLM training: model selection → fine-tuning → evaluation → deployment
• Build evaluation for clinical applications (RPM, triage, inbound/outbound)
• Build scripts for data selection, augmentation (noise, codec, jitter), and corpus curation
• Fine-tune LLMs using PEFT (LoRA/QLoRA/adapters) and preference methods such as DPO/RLHF where needed

What you need

• 7–10 yrs of experience
• LLMs
• Machine learning
• MLOps
• PhD

Good to have

• Python
• PyTorch