Wave
Applied AI Scientist - LLMs & Voice
NEWRemoteFull-timeGlobal
š° USD 167,000 - 227,900/yr
š Seniorš Remote
RemoteRemote work position availableActivePosted within the last 30 days
Job Description
You'll bridge research and production by building AI models and agent systems that ship directly into real products. You'll architect and ship autonomous voice and digital agents that power over 10 million customer interactions per month across West Africa. You'll tackle the hardest edge cases, including poor connectivity, low literacy, and languages with little training data. You'll experiment with, evaluate, and integrate the latest voice and text models. You'll own problems end-to-end, from problem discovery through running in production, working alongside product and engineering leaders who prioritize shipping real customer impact.
Requirements
- ā5+ years of experience in AI/ML
- āProven hands-on experience building with LLMs or AI systems (prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, fine-tuning, safety and guardrails etc.)
- āStrong foundations in statistics and ML theory
- āSolid Python and backend engineering skills
- āTrack record taking AI/ML systems from prototype to production with a focus on reliability, performance, and scalability
- āFluency with AI coding agents, with bonus points for deploying them as part of production systems
Responsibilities
- āBridge research and production by building AI models and agent systems that ship into real products
- āArchitect and ship autonomous voice and digital agents that power 10M+ customer interactions per month across West Africa
- āBuild for the hardest edge cases including poor connectivity, low literacy, and languages with little training data
- āExperiment with, evaluate, and integrate the latest voice and text models
- āOwn problems end-to-end from problem discovery to running in production
Benefits & Perks
- āSubsidized health insurance for you and your dependents
- āRetirement contributions
- ā6 months of fully paid parental leave
- āSubsidized fertility assistance
- āFlexible vacation
- ā$10,000 annual charitable donation matching
- āYearly $1,200 stipend for coworking meetups with teammates
- āEquity package
Tech Stack
AI coding agentASRconversational AIcustomercustomer support automationDistributed trainingembeddingevaluationfeature storefine-tuning