AI/ML Research Engineer Jobs

Our client, an innovative AI and Data company, is hiring a Head of Research to join the team in New York. The successful candidate will transform unique consumer-generated data streams into a gold standard for AI training and evaluation by shaping the company's research strategy, collaborating directly with leading AI labs, and establishing the organization as a recognised authority in audio data research and evaluation science.


Responsibilities

• Define and drive the company's AI research strategy, focusing on data evaluation, AI oversight and generative AI innovation.

• Develop strategic partnerships with leading AI research labs, academic institutions and industry experts.

• Build AI-assisted evaluation frameworks to measure, validate, and enhance audio and multimodal datasets.

• Translate emerging AI research advancements into scalable data solutions and production-ready capabilities.

• Position the organization as a recognized leader in audio AI, speech intelligence and AI evaluation science.

• Design and execute rigorous machine learning experiments, benchmarks and evaluation methodologies to support next-generation AI models.

• Represent the company across the global AI research ecosystem, building relationships with researchers, partners and technical communities.

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define AI data strategies, research priorities and innovation roadmaps.

Skillset

• Proven track record of impactful AI/ML research focused on data evaluation, generative AI or AI oversight.

• Deep expertise in audio, speech or multimodal AI systems, with strong understanding of emerging research trends.

• Experience working with frontier AI models, training pipelines and evaluation frameworks.

• Strong knowledge of AI evaluation methodologies, benchmarking and AI-assisted evaluation approaches.

• Experience designing and executing rigorous machine learning experiments using Python and PyTorch.

• Ability to translate complex AI research concepts into scalable, production-ready data solutions.

• Strong understanding of data quality, dataset development and evaluation strategies for AI model improvement.

• Proven ability to build relationships with leading AI researchers, technical partners and industry stakeholders.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to represent research concepts and technical insights to diverse audiences.

• Founder mindset with the ability to operate independently, drive innovation and deliver impact in a fast-moving environment.

Benefits

• Salary: $250k - $300k

• Comprehensive benefits package.

Our client, an innovative AI and Data company, is hiring a Data Operations Lead to join the team in New York. The successful candidate will own the end-to-end data lifecycle, shaping data operations, developing scalable processes, managing external partners and ensuring the highest standards of dataset quality to deliver high-quality, production-ready datasets for leading AI research teams.


Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end delivery of high-quality AI training datasets, from raw audio data collection through to production-ready outputs.

• Collaborate with AI research teams and external partners to define, manage and deliver dataset requirements.

• Support the development and execution of commercial data agreements, ensuring successful delivery against customer expectations.

• Design, build and optimize operational workflows across transcription, annotation, quality assurance and dataset production.

• Develop robust data quality frameworks, acceptance criteria and validation processes to maintain delivery standards.

• Lead outsourced and international data operations teams, ensuring quality, efficiency and timely delivery.

• Partner with engineering teams to enhance data pipelines, tooling and operational scalability.

• Identify and implement improvements to increase dataset quality, reliability and operational efficiency.

• Serve as a key liaison between customers, internal stakeholders, engineering teams and external vendors.

• Contribute to the company's data strategy and help scale data operations as the organization grows.

Skillset

• Minimum of 5 years of experience building and scaling data operations, data pipelines or AI/ML data workflows.

• Proven experience working with audio, speech or multimodal datasets within AI or machine learning environments.

• Strong track record managing external data partnerships, dataset delivery and AI training data programs.

• Experience leading global or outsourced teams focused on data annotation, transcription and quality assurance.

• Strong understanding of data quality frameworks, validation processes and operational performance metrics.

• Technical proficiency across data pipelines, cloud infrastructure and AI/ML workflows.

• Knowledge of digital audio fundamentals, including sample rates, voice activity detection (VAD) and audio processing formats.

• Experience developing or managing AI training datasets for applications such as ASR, TTS, speaker identification or conversational AI.

• Familiarity with audio processing and data tools such as Librosa, FFmpeg, SoX, torchaudio, and cloud platforms including AWS, GCP or Azure.

• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, take ownership and make decisions with limited information.

Benefits

• Salary: $180k - $220k

• Comprehensive benefits package.