# Research Engineer - Audio & Speech Models at Zyphra

- Company: Zyphra
- What the company does: The future of intelligence is open.
- Company website: https://www.zyphra.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-03-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/zyphra/23a55a60-0e7c-493d-859c-395c1ec4730e
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zyphra-research-engineer-audio-and-speech-models/

## About 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.

## What they're looking for

- 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
- 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

Tags: R&D - Engineering