Director of Research, Text to Speech

📋 Description

• Own the TTS research program end to end—from strategy to production-ready models.
• Set direction for architectures, experiments, training strategy, and evaluation.
• Build and scale the research team and operating model for speed with high technical bar.
• Collaborate with engineering and product leadership on ship-readiness and external representation

🎯 Requirements

• Deep expertise in modern TTS, speech generation, or audio generative modeling.
• Experience training and improving large-scale neural models.
• Strong ability to communicate complex technical tradeoffs to product/engineering/executive teams.
• History of setting research direction under uncertainty and allocating compute/researcher time.
• Leadership of researchers and research engineers through other technical leaders.

🎁 Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus opportunities
• Remote-friendly environment