Job Description

Posted on:

October 27, 2024

About Us PlayAI is at the forefront of generative voice and conversational LLMs. With our Speech Synthesis and Voice Cloning models, we are building the SOTA conversational AI products. We are constructing a platform and infrastructure for Conversational AI Voice Agents, enabling businesses, developers, and tinkerers to easily create talking human-like AI agents to serve their customers. This innovation will unlock massive value for the world and bring happiness to users interacting with these delightful agents. Having joined YC last year in the YC W23 batch, we have since raised $20m in seed funding and experienced substantial growth in both users and revenue (20x over the last two years).

What are we looking for? We are in search of Full-time Machine Learning Engineers and Researchers who are passionate about solving challenging problems and inventing the future of how people interact with LLMs. By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be a founding engineer and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Conversational AI. If you're eager to push AI boundaries and make a significant impact, this role is for you.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and build large-scale data pipelines.
  • Experiment and improve our Voice LLMs architectures for better quality, expressiveness, and latency.
  • Enhance inference infrastructure to reduce costs and latency.
  • Scale and optimize LLM distributed training infrastructure.

Qualifications:

  • An autonomous and resourceful engineer with a proven track record in deep learning.
  • Demonstrates a growth mindset and a passion for solving challenging problems.
  • Hands-on experience in deep learning, distributed training of LLMs, Generative Models, and Transformers.
  • Experience with Pytorch, Python, and C++.
  • Familiarity with Speech Synthesis is a significant plus.

What We Offer:

  • The chance to be a founding engineer in a rapidly growing startup.
  • Challenging problems to solve in an autonomous working environment.
  • Competitive compensation and equity.
  • Flexible work hours.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Commuter benefits.
  • Flexible PTO + holidays.

Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including experience, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

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