Anthropic · 2 days ago
Research Engineer/Research Scientist, Audio
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$350K/yr - $500K/yrAnthropic is a public benefit corporation focused on creating reliable and interpretable AI systems. They are seeking a Research Engineer/Research Scientist for their Audio team to develop and optimize audio models and systems, ensuring they are safe, steerable, and beneficial. The role involves working across various audio ML tasks, collaborating with teams to push the boundaries of audio technologies.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Develop audio codecs and representations
Source and synthesize high quality audio data
Train large-scale speech language models and large audio diffusion models
Develop novel architectures for incorporating continuous signals into LLMs
Build advanced steerable systems spanning end-to-end conversational systems, speech and audio understanding models, and speech synthesis capabilities
Collaborate closely with teams across pretraining, finetuning, reinforcement learning, production inference, and product to get advanced audio technologies from early research to high impact real-world deployments
Qualification
Required
Have hands-on experience with training audio models, whether that's conversational speech-to-speech, speech translation, speech recognition, text-to-speech, diarization, codecs, or generative audio models
Genuinely enjoy both research and engineering work, and you'd describe your ideal split as roughly 50/50 rather than heavily weighted toward one or the other
Are comfortable working across abstraction levels, from signal processing fundamentals to large-scale model training and inference optimization
Have deep expertise with JAX, PyTorch, or large-scale distributed training, and can debug performance issues across the full stack
Thrive in fast-moving environments where the most important problem might shift as we learn more about what works
Communicate clearly and collaborate effectively; audio touches many parts of our systems, so you'll work closely with teams across the company
Are passionate about building conversational AI that feels natural, steerable, and safe
Care about the societal impacts of voice AI and want to help shape how these systems are developed responsibly
Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Preferred
Large language model pretraining and finetuning
Training diffusion models for image and audio generation
Reinforcement learning for large language models and diffusion models
End-to-end system optimization, from performance benchmarking to kernel optimization
GPUs, Kubernetes, PyTorch, or distributed training infrastructure
Benefits
Equity and benefits
Optional equity donation matching
Generous vacation and parental leave
Flexible working hours
A lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues
Company
Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI research company that focuses on the safety and alignment of AI systems with human values.
Founded in 2021
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$33.74BKey Investors
Lightspeed Venture PartnersGoogleAmazon
2025-09-02Series F· $13B
2025-05-16Debt Financing· $2.5B
2025-03-03Series E· $3.5B
Leadership Team
Dario Amodei
CEO & Co-Founder
Daniela Amodei
President and co-founder
Recent News
2026-01-19
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