Member of Technical Staff – Post Training, Applied, Audio
Liquid AI
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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About the role
- Act as the technical owner for enterprise customer post-training engagements involving audio and speech workloads
- Translate customer requirements into concrete post-training specifications for ASR, TTS, and speech-to-speech tasks
- Design and execute data generation, preprocessing, augmentation, and quality filtering processes for audio corpora
- Fine-tune and adapt audio/speech models for customer-specific use cases, owning delivery from requirements through deployment
- Design task-specific evaluations for audio model performance (noise robustness, speaker variation, latency) and interpret results
- Build reusable applied tooling and workflows that accelerate future customer engagements
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with data generation and evaluation for ML model post-training
- Experience training or fine-tuning models using SFT, preference alignment, and/or RL
- Strong intuition for data quality and evaluation design
- Experience with speech or audio ML models (ASR, TTS, audio understanding, vocoders, or speech-to-speech systems)
- Proficiency in Python and PyTorch with autonomous coding and debugging ability
- Experience with audio data pipelines at scale (preprocessing, augmentation, quality filtering)
- Experience delivering applied ML work to external customers with measurable outcomes
- Familiarity with on-device deployment under latency and memory constraints
Benefits
- Competitive base salary with equity in a unicorn-stage company
- We pay 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents
- 401(k) matching up to 4% of base pay
- Unlimited PTO plus company-wide Refill Days throughout the year
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data generationevaluation designfine-tuning modelsSFTpreference alignmentRLPythonPyTorchaudio data pipelinesquality filtering
Soft Skills
strong intuition for data qualityautonomous codingdebugging ability