Applied Researcher, Audio

About the role

As an Applied Researcher in Audio, you will turn promising research into models that work outside the lab.

You will contribute across model architecture, data, training, evaluation, and inference. Depending on the problem, your work could involve speech understanding, generation, representation learning, alignment, multilingual modeling, or multimodal systems.

This role is deliberately broad. We are looking for someone who can move between scientific exploration and practical implementation, then carry a successful experiment through to an open release or production system.

Please note: While we are currently accepting applications for this role, we are not actively hiring for it at the moment. We’ll review relevant profiles and reach out should a suitable opportunity arise.

Why we need you

Audio contains much more than the words in a transcript. Timing, prosody, speaker identity, pronunciation, repairs, vocal events, and acoustic context all carry information.

Most speech systems simplify these details away. That makes them easier to train, but less useful in real communication and especially in neurological care.

nyra labs works on models that preserve and understand more of the original signal. We need an applied researcher who can connect new research ideas with difficult real-world data, rigorous evaluation, and systems that people can actually use.