Machine Learning TTS Engineer
Acclaim Lisbon, Portugal
Technology, Information and Internet · 51-200 employees
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About the role
Extend TTS capabilities to new languages through data curation and model adaptation while taking research architectures to production. Design efficient audio data pipelines and implement rigorous benchmarks to evaluate and improve model performance.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires 3+ years of experience in speech technology with hands-on expertise in modern LLM-based TTS approaches. Proficiency in PyTorch, deep learning fundamentals, and strong software engineering practices are essential.
Benefits
Full description
We’re expanding our TTS to new languages and moving to next-generation LLM-based TTS, and we’re looking for a Machine Learning TTS Engineer to help bring these technologies to production quality! You’ll join a small TTS team of 2–3 ML engineers, supported by a dedicated MLOps team and a data engineer.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in speech technology with hands-on TTS experience.
- Hands-on experience with modern LLM-based TTS approaches (e.g., VALL-E, CosyVoice, XTTS).
- Experience making TTS models production-ready: stability, robustness, and inference efficiency at the model level.
- Proficiency in deep learning frameworks, especially PyTorch.
- Understanding of modern ML fundamentals: Transformers, diffusion/flow matching, neural audio codecs, and vocoders.
- Understanding of streaming TTS constraints (latency, chunked/incremental generation) and how they shape model architecture choices.
- Knowledge of audio signal processing and the linguistic side of TTS (phonetics, text normalization).
- Basic experience with speech data processing (segmentation, alignment, quality filtering).
- Familiarity with TTS evaluation methods (MOS, SBS).
- Strong Python skills and solid software engineering practices.
- Proven ability to independently explore new ideas and improve existing ML systems.
- BS or higher in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- English B2+.
Nice to have:
- Experience with low-resource languages, including dataset creation and augmentation.
- Experience designing recording scripts and specs for TTS voice datasets.
- MLOps/DataOps experience, e.g., MLflow, DVC, or similar experiment tracking tools.
- C++ skills.
- Publications in speech/ML venues.
Responsibilities
Extend our TTS to new languages: data collection and curation, text normalization/G2P, and model adaptation.
Take new TTS architectures from research to production: improve robustness, latency, and quality, working closely with MLOps on deployment.
Push existing models further through post-training, data curation, architectural improvements, and new training approaches.
Build efficient audio data pipelines, from speaker recording and preprocessing to model training.
Design rigorous benchmarks and evaluations that show whether a new model iteration is genuinely better, and why.
What we offer
- The team has built award-winning AI products for tech corporations — devices, voice assistants, products that are actually in the world
- Cutting-edge tech stack: Speech Technologies, NLP, Generative AI (LLMs, diffusion models), voice-first agentic architecture with privacy-first and on-premises deployment
- High engineering bar and real ownership — the team cares about what actually works in production, not what looks good in a demo, and you'll see the impact of your work directly
- Fast career progression — a senior-heavy team and a high volume of real problems means you grow faster than you would anywhere else
- Startup pace with enterprise stability — real clients, real revenue, no bureaucracy
- Fully remote across Europe
- 21 vacation days + public holidays + 5 sick days
- Private English lessons via Preply
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