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Research Engineer - Voice Intelligence

Pocket · San Francisco, CA, US · On-site

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About Pocket

Take Notes in the Real World. Backed by Accel and Y Combinator.

About the role

Pocket is building a category-defining platform for ambient intelligence. Voice is the highest-signal interface we have — and we’re looking for a research-minded engineer to push what’s possible with voice end-to-end: capture → understanding → real-time experiences → evaluation.

What they're looking for

  • Have 6–10+ years of experience shipping production systems with strong technical ownership
  • Are strong in applied ML/research engineering and can turn prototypes into robust product
  • Understand audio/voice fundamentals (signal processing basics helpful) and modern model/eval workflows
  • Care deeply about performance and reliability
More about this role

Pocket is building a category-defining platform for ambient intelligence. Voice is the highest-signal interface we have — and we’re looking for a research-minded engineer to push what’s possible with voice end-to-end: capture → understanding → real-time experiences → evaluation.

  • Invent and ship improvements to our voice stack: diarization, VAD, noise robustness, transcription quality, speaker ID, and post-processing.
  • Build new voice-powered product capabilities: better memory, better meeting/voice summaries, better action extraction, better personalization.
  • Run tight research loops: define metrics, build eval sets, iterate on models/algorithms, and productionize what works.
  • Improve real-time performance and reliability: streaming pipelines, latency budgets, fallbacks, and graceful degradation.
  • Partner closely with product + design to translate voice capabilities into features people feel immediately.
  • Step-function improvements in voice quality and perceived intelligence (measured and felt).
  • A clear evaluation harness (offline + online) that prevents regressions and accelerates iteration.
  • Voice features that ship reliably at scale with predictable latency.
  • Have...

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