💼 About This Role

You'll join a team building next-generation multimodal LLMs for AI phone agents at a well-funded startup. You'll take models from idea to production, integrating speech, text, and real-time reasoning. This role offers high autonomy and high impact in a fast-moving environment.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Build industry-leading conversational AI models for voice agents.
• Integrate streaming audio, tool execution, and dynamic context into a unified system.
• Take research ideas through to production systems serving millions of calls per day.
• Design and run experiments with fast iteration cycles.

📋 Requirements

• Experience with LLMs, multimodal models, or speech-language systems.
• Deep understanding of prompting, fine-tuning, and alignment techniques.
• Ability to go from idea to dataset to experiment to conclusion in days.
• Proven ability to translate abstract modeling ideas into user-facing improvements.

✨ Nice to Have

• Experience with real-time voice systems or conversational AI.
• Background in tool-using agents or agent frameworks.
• Contributions to LLM or speech-related research or open source.

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 💰 Competitive salary $180K–$260K + meaningful equity.
• 🏥 Full healthcare, dental, and vision coverage.
• 🏢 Office in Jackson Square, SF with high autonomy.
• 🚀 High impact role at a fast-growing startup.

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks · AI estimate

1. 1Recruiter Call· 30 min
2. 2Technical Screen· 45 min
3. 3Onsite Interviews· 3 hours