Applied AI Engineer
Salient, SF Headquarters
The role
We’re looking for a Member of Technical Staff to help build the speech and language models behind Salient’s production voice agents.
You’ll work on challenging problems in speech and language modeling. Many of these problems look solved in academic benchmarks, but remain deeply unsolved in real-world production.
This is a high-ownership role on a small, elite team. You’ll own core parts of the system end to end, and everything you do will have direct revenue impact.
What you will do
- Build and improve production speech models and systems with the ultimate goal of improving real-time conversational quality.
- Post-train LLMs for voice agents used for consumer finance.
- Develop evals, harnesses, and monitoring systems.
- Work across models, data, infrastructure, and product to improve end-to-end agent quality.
- Own major technical areas with significant autonomy, from problem definition to production deployment.