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  • Acclaim
  • Lisbon, Lisbon
  • Full-Time
  • <48 Hours
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Machine Learning TTS Engineer.

Remote Data Science & ML Full-Time

Machine Learning TTS Engineer: our view in 3 lines...

  • The Role:This role is for an engineer who builds and improves text-to-speech models, including newer large language model based approaches, for new languages and production use.
  • The Person:The person will extend TTS to new languages through data collection, text normalization and model adaptation, take new architectures from research to production, and design rigorous benchmarks and evaluations.
  • Requirements:The ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience in speech technology with hands-on TTS experience, proficiency in deep learning frameworks especially PyTorch, strong Python skills, and English B2+.

About the role

We’re expanding our TTS to new languages and moving to next-generation LLM-based TTS, and we’re looking for a Machine Learning TTS Engineer to help bring these technologies to production quality! You’ll join a small TTS team of 2–3 ML engineers, supported by a dedicated MLOps team and a data engineer.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in speech technology with hands-on TTS experience.
  • Hands-on experience with modern LLM-based TTS approaches (e.g., VALL-E, CosyVoice, XTTS).
  • Experience making TTS models production-ready: stability, robustness, and inference efficiency at the model level.
  • Proficiency in deep learning frameworks, especially PyTorch.
  • Understanding of modern ML fundamentals: Transformers, diffusion/flow matching, neural audio codecs, and vocoders.
  • Understanding of streaming TTS constraints (latency, chunked/incremental generation) and how they shape model architecture choices.
  • Knowledge of audio signal processing and the linguistic side of TTS (phonetics, text normalization).
  • Basic experience with speech data processing (segmentation, alignment, quality filtering).
  • Familiarity with TTS evaluation methods (MOS, SBS).
  • Strong Python skills and solid software engineering practices.
  • Proven ability to independently explore new ideas and improve existing ML systems.
  • BS or higher in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • English B2+.

Nice to have:

  • Experience with low-resource languages, including dataset creation and augmentation.
  • Experience designing recording scripts and specs for TTS voice datasets.
  • MLOps/DataOps experience, e.g., MLflow, DVC, or similar experiment tracking tools.
  • C++ skills.
  • Publications in speech/ML venues.

Responsibilities

Extend our TTS to new languages: data collection and curation, text normalization/G2P, and model adaptation.

Take new TTS architectures from research to production: improve robustness, latency, and quality, working closely with MLOps on deployment.

Push existing models further through post-training, data curation, architectural improvements, and new training approaches.

Build efficient audio data pipelines, from speaker recording and preprocessing to model training.

Design rigorous benchmarks and evaluations that show whether a new model iteration is genuinely better, and why.

What we offer

  • The team has built award-winning AI products for tech corporations — devices, voice assistants, products that are actually in the world 
  • Cutting-edge tech stack: Speech Technologies, NLP, Generative AI (LLMs, diffusion models), voice-first agentic architecture with privacy-first and on-premises deployment
  • High engineering bar and real ownership — the team cares about what actually works in production, not what looks good in a demo, and you'll see the impact of your work directly 
  • Fast career progression — a senior-heavy team and a high volume of real problems means you grow faster than you would anywhere else 
  • Startup pace with enterprise stability — real clients, real revenue, no bureaucracy 
  • Fully remote across Europe
  • 21 vacation days + public holidays + 5 sick days 
  • Private English lessons via Preply
Published November 4, 2026
Location Lisbon, Portugal
Category Data Science & ML  
Job Type Full-Time