Director of Research, Text-to-Speech

We're looking for a Director of Research to own our Text-to-Speech program end to end — the research strategy, the technical bets, and the models that ship. This is a hands-on leadership role: you set direction and stay in the details, shaping architectures, experiments, training strategy, and evaluation. You'll also build the team and operating model that let exceptional researchers move fast without lowering the bar.

The mandate is broad: advance the state of the art in speech generation, and turn those advances into models in production.

• Own the TTS research and model roadmap — decide which technical directions can materially move speech-generation quality, including the expensive and non-obvious ones, and recognize when an approach should change or die.
• Drive advances across neural audio modeling, prosody and expressiveness, controllability, multilingual speech, voice identity and consistency, data and training strategy, post-training, and inference performance — and make sure they land as measurable production gains.