Researcher, Models

Cartesia
California, San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 180,000 - 350,000 annuallyFunction: Architecture & Urban PlanningSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Collaboration","Critical thinking"]

Join Cartesia to advance neural network architecture research, designing novel architectures and evaluating their trade-offs across cloud and on-device environments. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate research into scalable systems, enhancing model quality, efficiency, and generalization for real-world AI applications.

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1 year ago

Researcher, Models

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Job Summary

Join Cartesia to advance neural network architecture research, designing novel architectures and evaluating their trade-offs across cloud and on-device environments. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate research into scalable systems, enhancing model quality, efficiency, and generalization for real-world AI applications.
Location: California, San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Architecture & Urban Planning

Key Responsibilities

  • •Conduct groundbreaking research in neural network architecture design to advance the state-of-the-art in alternative architectures (e.g., state space models, efficient transformers, hybrid architectures).
  • •Design novel architectures that improve model quality, inference efficiency, and adaptability across diverse deployment environments, from cloud to on-device.
  • •Explore and develop capabilities such as statefulness, long-range memory, and innovative conditioning mechanisms for enhancing model expressiveness and generalization.
  • •Investigate how architectural decisions impact model trade-offs, including scalability, robustness, latency, and energy efficiency.
  • •Develop new frameworks and tools to evaluate architectural innovations, benchmarking performance across research and production settings.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 180,000 - 350,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kRelocation

Key Requirements

  • •Deep expertise in architecture design with experience in researching or deploying advanced architectures (e.g., state space models, transformers, RNN variants, CNN variants).
  • •Strong understanding of how architectures interact with system constraints, including deployment in cloud environments or on-device.
  • •Proficiency in designing architectures that balance quality, efficiency, and adaptability across different use cases and modalities (e.g., vision, audio, text).
  • •Familiarity with generative modeling paradigms like autoregressive and diffusion models, and designing capabilities such as statefulness and conditioning in deep learning models.
  • •A proven research track record in top-tier ML/AI venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR) or demonstrable contributions to state-of-the-art architectures.
Experience:AIMachine LearningResearch
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingCollaborationCritical thinking
Tech Stack:PyTorchTensorFlowState Space ModelsTransformers

Company Brief

Cartesia
Builds real-time multimodal and voice AI (Sonic) that generates expressive, low-latency speech for conversational agents and on-device experiences, serving developers and enterprises with APIs and SDKs.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2023
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