# Research Engineer - Audio & Speech Models at Zyphra

Research Engineer - Audio & Speech Models at Zyphra in San Francisco. On-site, full-time. Posted March 17, 2026.

- Company: Zyphra
- Location: San Francisco
- Workplace: On-site
- Job type: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-03-17
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/zyphra/23a55a60-0e7c-493d-859c-395c1ec4730e/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/research-engineer-audio-speech-models-zyphra-dy3hc8

## Requirements

- Strong research taste and intuition. The ability to work through a research project from conception to execution to write-up.
- Strong implementation and prototyping ability (can take an idea from conception to experimentation quickly)
- The ability to work well with others in a high-paced research setting
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and can work effectively on both research and engineering implementation at scale

## Description

### **Zyphra** is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco, California.

### **The Role:**

As a** Research Engineer - Audio & Speech Models**, you will be a core contributor on Zyphra’s Audio Team, building the next generation of open-source autoencoders, ASR, TTS, SSL, and speech-to-speech models. You will be deeply involved in the entire model training process, from data gathering and processing to designing novel architectures and training methodologies.

### **You’ll Work Across:**

- Large-scale audio training runs

- Performance optimization of our training stack

- Audio dataset collection, processing, and evaluation

- Architecture and training methodology ablations and improvements

### **What We're Looking For / Requirements: **

- Strong research taste and intuition. The ability to work through a research project from conception to execution to write-up.

- Strong implementation and prototyping ability (can take an idea from conception to experimentation quickly)

- The ability to work well with others in a high-paced research setting

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and can work effectively on both research and engineering implementation at scale

### **Qualifications / Additional Skills:**

- Expertise and intuition for training models in the audio domain, including text-to-speech, ASR, speech-to-speech, speech-emotion-recognition, or other models

- Experience in training audio autoencoders

- Understanding of signal processing, especially of audio signals

- Experience with diffusion models, consistency models, or GANs

- Experience with training on large-scale (multi-node) GPU clusters

- Strong grasp of proper experimental methodology for running rigorous ablations and other hypothesis testing

- Understanding of and interest in large-scale, highly parallel data processing pipelines

- Proficiency with PyTorch and Python

- Experience contributing to large pre-existing codebases and rapidly getting up to speed

- Previously published machine learning research in well-respected venues

- Postgraduate degree in a scientific subject (Computer Science, EE/EECS, Mathematics, Physics, Machine Learning)

### **Why Work at Zyphra:**

- Our research methodology is grounded in methodical, step-by-step approaches to ambitious goals. Both deep research and engineering excellence are equally valued

- We strongly value new and crazy ideas and are very willing to bet big on new ideas

- We move as quickly as we can; we aim to minimize the bar to impact as low as possible

- We all enjoy what we do and love discussing AI

### **Benefits and Perks:**

- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and FSA plans

- Competitive compensation and 401(k) plan

- Relocation and immigration support on a case-by-case basis

- In-office snacks and meals provided

- Unlimited PTO and company holidays

- In-person team in San Francisco with a collaborative, high-energy environment