AI Researcher (Voice)

Tavus is a research lab pioneering human computing. We’re building AI Humans: a new interface that closes the gap between people and machines, free from the friction of today’s systems.

Requirements

• Have proven experience with flow matching, diffusion models, auto regressive networks in the audio domain.
• Have experience training deep learning models: from medium-sized to large models.
• Have experience building streaming text-to-speech models or speech-to-speech models
• Have strong foundations in audio modeling and demonstrated ability to innovate rapidly through prototyping.
• Know state-of-the-art architectures in representation learning: audio or image domain, face animation (in addition to having a deep understanding of the direct field of expertise above)
• Have excellent programming skills and be fluent in PyTorch
• Show evidence of original research, with publications in top-tier or solid second-tier venues (e.g., CVPR, NeurIPS, BMVC or equivalent).
• Be excited about building lifelike, expressive avatars for real-time applications.
• PhD or equivalent experience preferred
• Experience leading research teams
• Knowledge of best practices in Software Development

Benefits

• Flexible work schedule
• Unlimited PTO
• Competitive healthcare
• Gear stipends
• Fun