Nuance Research Fellow
Posted
$200,000 – $250,000 USD
Tech Stack
Responsibilities
- Own a concrete research problem from framing through experiments, analysis, and integration into the Nuance stack
- Work on frontier Multimodal LLM systems spanning audio, video, language, and real-time interaction
- Explore and adapt modern generative modeling techniques, including flow matching, diffusion, autoregressive modeling, and hybrid approaches
- Design, instrument, debug, and interpret training and evaluation runs with scientific rigor
- Build evaluation harnesses, benchmarks, and analysis tooling for real-time conversational agents
Soft Skills
High AgencyBias Toward ShippingIcpcKaggle Grandmaster
Benefits
- Visa Sponsorship
- HSA/FSA
- Commuter Benefits
- 401k
Culture
Deep Work FocusFast-PacedCross-Functional TeamsCollaborative SpaceInclusive Hiring
Requirements
Preferred: BS, MS, or PhD in CS, ML, math, physics, EE, or a related field
Regions: Us
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About Nuance Communications
Industry: ai
Size: startup
Nuance Labs is a Series A company building photorealistic, real-time AI avatars with emotional intelligence that can listen, speak, react, interrupt, and respond like a real person. They focus on developing foundation models for full-duplex audiovisual AI to achieve natural conversation with sub-500ms response times.
View company profile →Compensation
Base salary: $200,000 – $250,000 USD
Equity: meaningful equity (for full-time conversion)