Research Engineer
About the role
About ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company transforming how we interact with technology. We launched in January 2023 with the first human-like AI voice model. Today, we serve millions of users and thousands of businesses - from fast-growing startups to large enterprises like Deutsche Telekom and Meta. Our investors include Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth and Sequoia. We've raised $781M in funding and our last valuation was $11B.
We have expanded from voice into three main platforms: ElevenAgents enables businesses to deliver seamless and intelligent customer experiences. ElevenCreative empowers creators and marketers to generate and edit speech, music, image, and video across 70+ languages. ElevenAPI gives developers access to our leading AI audio foundational models.
How we work
- High-velocity: Rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy.
- Impact not job titles: We don’t have job titles. It’s about the impact you have.
- AI first: We use AI to move faster with higher-quality results across the whole company.
- Excellence everywhere: Everything we do should match the quality of our AI models.
- Global team: We prioritize your talent, not your location.
What we offer
- Innovative culture: Be part of a generational opportunity to define the trajectory of AI.
- Growth paths: Join a dynamic team with countless opportunities to drive impact.
- Learning & development: Annual discretionary stipend for professional development.
- Social travel: Annual discretionary stipend to meet up with colleagues.
- Annual company offsite: Past offsites have included Croatia and Italy.
- Co-working: Monthly co-working stipend if not near a main hub.
About the role
We are looking for a Research Engineer to join the research team at ElevenLabs. You will thrive if you enjoy:
- Creating and upholding a reliable and expandable data management system specialized for text-to-speech projects.
- Establishing a streamlined process for autonomously training, assessing, and launching text-to-speech models.
- Investigating cutting-edge approaches in machine learning, deep learning, and algorithms pertaining to text-to-speech technology.
Requirements
We do not require any formal certifications or degrees. We are seeking enthusiastic software engineers who can showcase solving impressively hard problems with artifacts such as past projects, designs, or GitHub contributions. We do require:
- 3+ years industry experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, with emphasis on constructing data pipelines and developing machine learning models.
- Demonstrating the capacity to autonomously evaluate novel concepts or enhance current machine learning projects.
- Extensive background in conducting exploratory research.