- Kalpa Labs
- San Francisco, CA
- Full-Time
- 69 days ago
- $150,000 – $220,000
Research Engineer.
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Research Engineer: our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This role is for an ML research engineer working on generalist audio models that combine speech and broader audio understanding.
- The Person:The person will research multimodal architectures and codecs, post-train audio models, build large-scale speech model training, and create scalable data and compute pipelines with evaluation harnesses.
- Requirements:The ideal candidate has industry or academia experience with pre-training and post-training large neural networks, speech or audio experience, language or vision experience, and strong ML systems and engineering depth.
About the role
We’re hiring a Founding ML Research Engineer to work work through the full stack across data, pre-training, post-training & evals for training Generalist Audio Models. You’ll work through the entire stack with small team, tons of compute, high autonom, and see your research ideas making it to production within a week(s).
What you’ll do
- Research better multi-modal architectures & codecs that are efficient across both spoken speech & general audio.
- Post-train audio models to have LLM like instruction following & in-context learning but over both text and audio.
- Build large-scale speech model pre-training and post-training (SFT/RLHF-style, distillation, preference optimization, etc.).
- Build scalable data + compute pipelines: dataset curation, filtering, mixing, tokenization/feature pipelines, evaluation harnesses.
- Look at lots of data & hear lots of audio.
What we’re looking for
- Industry/Academia experience pre-training / post-training large neural networks; speech/audio is a plus but not required, language/vision experience is also relevant.
- Strong ML systems and engineering depth (distributed training, performance, reliability).
- Comfort operating in ambiguity: you can spec, build, debug, and ship.
- A hunger to always ask - what would the next frontier look like?
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