# Staff AI Research Engineer

**Company**: Duolingo
**Location**: New York, NY
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $220,800-$331,200 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.

At Duolingo, you'll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems, running countless experiments with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike.

## About the role

We are looking for an experienced AI Research Engineer to join our Speech team. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record as an AI research engineer, with experience across various machine learning techniques, and a particular focus on speech modeling: ASR, TTS, speech-to-speech models, audio tokenization, and more.

You will...

- Join a full-stack team of frontend, backend, and other AI Research engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.

- Contribute to the development and training of speech models and large-scale neural network models.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand their needs, to align the models' outputs with company objectives.

- Participate in and help drive strategic product and business decision making as a member of the Speech leadership group.

- Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in machine learning, particularly in speech models, and apply this knowledge to drive advancements in our projects.

- Mentor team members, providing guidance and support in their professional development.

- Ensure the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and efficient machine learning solutions.

You have...

- Proven experience as an AI research engineer, for example, in speech recognition, TTS, LLMs, or related fields.

- Strong background in training and fine-tuning large models in an applied setting.

- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with a focus on machine learning or artificial intelligence, or equivalent experience.

- Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to manage and inspire a team.

- Deep understanding of machine learning concepts, frameworks, and best practices.

The offered salary is dependent upon several factors, including work experience, skills, and internal peer comparisons.

Salary Range: $220,800-$331,200 USD

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## Skills

### Required
- AI research engineering
- speech modeling
- machine learning
- ASR
- TTS
- speech-to-speech models
- audio tokenization
- large-scale neural network models
- feature engineering
- reinforcement learning
- benchmarks and evaluations
- deployment
- monitoring

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