Salient is an AI workflow automation tool for lenders. We're working with the largest auto lenders in America and are hiring!

About the Role:
We are looking for Applied Research Scientists with deep expertise in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) to join our team. You will work on designing, training, and evaluating next-generation ASR and speech-augmented language models, with a focus on high accuracy, robustness in noisy conditions, and real-time performance. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of cutting-edge research and production-grade systems.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and improve SOTA ASR models and speech-augmented language models (SALM)
• Optimize ASR systems for diverse accents/languages and low-resource speech
• Contribute to internal tooling for data processing, model training, and inference benchmarking
• Perform any relevant engineering tasks related to model training and serving (e.g., data ingestion, data cleaning, evaluation)

Requirements:

• Proven track record developing SOTA ASR models, or a PhD focused on ASR or speech-augmented language models
• Strong understanding of audio preprocessing, tokenization, and decoding techniques
• Experience with large-scale training pipelines and distributed training frameworks

Nice to Have:

• Experience with multilingual or low-resource ASR systems
• Contributions to academic research or open-source projects in speech
• Background in speech synthesis, speaker diarization, or conversational speech modeling

About Salient

Salient is building the future of consumer loan servicing, starting by transforming the auto lending industry. Since our September 2023 launch, we've:

• Scaled to more than $10M in ARR
• Partnered with some of the largest consumer lenders in America
• Cash flow positive
• Raised $65m in funding
• Interfaced with more than 2 million unique US consumers
• Processed over $150M in cash transactions
• Prevented $30M in fraud
• Identified 35k+ CFPB violations
• In-person office culture in San Francisco, CA

Backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix, General Catalyst, and Y Combinator.

Please also apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/salient/8fd5e67f-0546-42d6-b727-a308e3f3cda5?utm_source=jWxe7rrWVr

python + LLM stack + transformer based voice models