Founding Data Scientist
Salary
₹60 - 80 LPA
Min Experience
3 years
Location
Bangalore
JobType
full-time
- Overview
About the role
Overview
Company name: smallest.ai | HQ Location: San Francisco, California | Website | LinkedIn
Role: Founding Data Scientist
- Experience: 3-5 years
- Salary: Rs. 60-80 lakhs per annum
- Location: Bangalore
- Type: Full-time
Role Description
This is a full-time on-site role located in Bengaluru for a Lead Data Scientist in the Speech team at smallest.ai. Someone with strong experience in speech either via research or industry is preferred. This is a hands-on role, although you will be expected to guide junior data scientists. Increments and appraisals will be quarterly and merit+company performance-based.
Requirements:
- MS/PhD in speech or equivalent industry experience (3-5 years)
- Must have experience training/finetuning LLMs for production usecases/published papers
- Hands on in Pytorch, Python
- Strong understanding of deep learning foundations
- Experience in working with large datasets
- Strong problem-solving and critical thinking abilities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics)
- Experience with machine learning algorithms and tools
Great to Have:
- Experience curating text to speech datasets
- Experience with audio encoders and decoders
- Experience with MLOps
- Experience with TensorRT
- Experience guiding a team of junior data scientists
About the company
About us
We are a small team of engineers and data scientists who are building real-time text to speech and speech to speech models. Founders are graduates from IITG with a history of deploying production grade AI for L3+ autonomous vehicles. We have raised our pre-seed of 1M at 6M valuation from 3one4 capital, Better capital.