Senior Applied Scientist, Speech

The Opportunity
Do you want to lead projects to build and deploy cutting-edge AI technology to help people get unparalleled value from meetings and conversations? Join our core AI team responsible for ML and work alongside industry-veteran scientists and engineers. As a Senior Applied Scientist, you’ll bring your strong software engineering mindset to machine learning in order to scale and optimize our speech systems—creating and transforming innovative research into production-ready features that power Otter’s summarization and conversational intelligence products.

Your Impact

• Architect, build, and evolve large-scale ASR and TTS systems that power mission-critical product experiences including speech understanding across millions of conversations.
• Lead the design and implementation of training, fine-tuning, post-training, and inference strategies for speech models using PyTorch making principled trade-offs across quality, latency, cost, and reliability.
• Design and improve model architectures, loss functions, decoding strategies, and training techniques for speech models, informed by both research and production constraints.
• Own end-to-end ML system l