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Machine Learning Researcher, Audio

Bland AI · San Francisco · On-site

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About Bland AI

Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

As a Machine Learning Researcher at Bland, you'll be working on foundational research and development across the core components of our voice stack: speech-to-text, large language models, neural audio codecs, and text-to-speech. Your work will define how our agents understand, reason, and speak in real time at enterprise scale.

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At Bland.com, our mission is to empower enterprises to build AI phone agents at scale. Based in San Francisco, we are a fast-growing team reimagining how customers interact with businesses through voice. We have raised $100 million from leading Silicon Valley investors, including Emergence Capital, Scale Venture Partners, Y Combinator, and founders of Twilio, Affirm, and ElevenLabs.

Voice is quickly becoming the primary interface between businesses and their customers. We are building the models and infrastructure that make those interactions feel natural, reliable, and genuinely human.

As a Machine Learning Researcher at Bland, you'll be working on foundational research and development across the core components of our voice stack: speech-to-text, large language models, neural audio codecs, and text-to-speech. Your work will define how our agents understand, reason, and speak in real time at enterprise scale.

This is not a narrow research role. You will take ideas from theory to large-scale training to production inference systems serving millions of calls per day. You will design new modeling approaches, validate them with rigorous experimentation, and collaborate with...

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