Founding ML Research Engineer

About Kalpa Labs

Scaling Generalist Speech models

The role

We’re hiring a Founding ML Research Engineer to work work through the full stack across data, pre-training, post-training & evals for training Generalist Audio Models. You’ll work through the entire stack with small team, tons of compute, high autonomy, and see your research ideas making it to production within a week(s).**What you’ll do*** Research better multi-modal architectures & codecs that are efficient across both spoken speech & general audio.* Post-train audio models to have LLM like instruction following & in-context learning but over both text and audio.* Build large-scale speech model pre-training and post-training (SFT/RLHF-style, distillation, preference optimization, etc.).* Build scalable data + compute pipelines: dataset curation, filtering, mixing, tokenization/feature pipelines, evaluation harnesses.* Look at lots of data & hear lots of audio.**What we’re looking for*** Industry/Academia experience pre-training / post-training large neural networks; speech/audio is a plus but not required, language/vision experience is also relevant.* Strong ML systems and engineering depth (distributed training, performance, reliability).* Comfort operating in ambiguity: you can spec, build, debug, and ship.* A hunger to always ask - what would the next frontier look like?**To apply**\Share arxiv links to papers that: you co-authored, you enjoyed reading, you found surprising.

Skills

• Machine Learning