Voice builders, you guys are some of the rarest, hardest people to find lol. Or maybe i'm looking in the wrong places.
Regardless, We've spent about 6 months straight building a TTS model and boy was it one hell a challenge.
I wanna take some time off to maybe help others who are building in the space, and even learn how we could do things better.
it's designed specifically for realtime conversations.
We're an early-stage startup building conversational voice models, and we're looking for an AI Researcher to get deep into model architecture with us.
What we're after:
Real comfort with the transformer architecture, beyond using models off the shelf.
You understand attention, positional encodings, and what actually happens when you change things. You've pre-trained or fine-tuned a model yourself and can talk through what you built, why, and what you learned.
Work that goes past intro exercises. We want to see you've pushed into the architecture and formed your own intuitions.
Nice to have: publications (appreciated, not required). A strong unpublished project beats a paper you weren't central to. Backgrounds we value: audio/sound engineering, math, physics, neuroscience, or any rigorous technical field. If yours isn't listed but feels relevant, make the case.
Heads up: we're pre-revenue, so this is currently unpaid, we're open to discuss incentive structures on the table once we're post-revenue. The draw is real ownership over the research and shaping what we build. Interested? DM me or reach out at cyrus@theclevr.com.
Our website: https://www.theclevr.com