Nuance Research Fellow

Posted

Nuance CommunicationsSeattle, Washingtonfull-timestaff

$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

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Equity

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.

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Compensation
Base salary: $250,000 USD
Equity: meaningful equity (for full-time conversion)