# Machine Learning Researcher, Audio

Hiring organization: [Protege](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/protege)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/02127d6e-a076-4094-af88-244d50ddb432

Listed on Protege's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Remote: yes

## Summary

This role focuses on developing methods and frameworks to measure and improve audio data quality for machine learning systems, particularly for speech and audio models. It's ideal for someone with deep signal processing knowledge who enjoys combining research investigation with practical implementation to solve a critical bottleneck in AI training.

_Our summary, not Protege's wording._

## Skills named

Python, Signal Processing

## Required

- PhD or Master's degree plus 4+ years industry experience in ML, audio signal processing, speech technology, or related quantitative field
- Experience designing and running data evaluations, audio analyses, or benchmarks
- Strong understanding of audio data properties including sampling rates, codecs, bandwidth, spectrograms, reverberation, clipping, and noise
- Experience developing or evaluating metrics and measurement frameworks for ML systems or audio analysis
- Ability to connect signal properties to downstream ML behavior
- Comfortable moving between research exploration and production implementation
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- High ownership and bias toward action

## Nice to have

- Experience with ASR, TTS, speaker modeling, self-supervised speech models, diarization, or multimodal audio models
- Experience developing evaluation frameworks for training data
- Experience inventing or validating audio quality metrics for ML datasets
- Experience studying the relationship between dataset quality and model performance
- Publications or open-source contributions in speech, audio ML, data-centric AI, or ML evaluation
- Cross-functional collaboration with product, infrastructure, or data operations teams
- Industry or academic lab collaboration on speech/audio research

Apply on Protege's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/protege/6348293b-5549-4692-bef0-bac0c4b0bda5/application