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Machine Learning Researcher, Audio

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Quick Summary

Overview

Machine Learning Researcher / Engineer, Multimodal LLMs Location: San Francisco, CA or Remote (US) About Bland At Bland.com, our mission is to empower enterprises to build AI phone agents at scale.

Technical Tools
machine-learning
  • Experience with LLMs, multimodal models, or speech-language systems

  • Deep understanding of prompting, fine-tuning, and alignment techniques

  • Familiarity with streaming or real-time inference is a strong plus

  • Ability to reason about full systems, not just models

  • Comfortable designing interactions between:

    • model

    • tools

    • prompts

    • runtime constraints

  • You can go from idea → dataset → experiment → conclusion in days

  • You know how to design experiments that actually answer the question

  • Strong sense for what makes an interaction feel natural vs robotic

  • Ability to translate abstract modeling ideas into user-facing improvements

  • You take ownership from research through deployment

  • You thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

  • You care about impact, not just elegance

  • You think in systems, not just models

  • You obsess over latency, correctness, and real-world behavior

  • You are comfortable discarding ideas quickly when data disagrees

  • You push toward simple abstractions for complex problems

Nice to Have

~1 min read
  • Experience with real-time voice systems or conversational AI

  • Background in tool-using agents or agent frameworks

  • Experience with multimodal datasets (audio + text + actions)

  • Contributions to LLM or speech-related research or open source

Your work will define how our agents:

  • understand users in real time

  • decide when to respond

  • choose what tools to call

  • balance speed vs correctness

  • behave under complex policies

This is the core intelligence layer of the product.

What We Offer

~1 min read
Competitive salary: $180,000 – $260,000
Meaningful equity
Full healthcare, dental, vision
Office in Jackson Square, SF
High autonomy, high impact

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job
San Francisco
On-site at the office
Who can apply
Same as job location

Listing Details

Posted
April 20, 2026
First seen
May 5, 2026
Last seen
May 7, 2026

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Trust Level
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May 6, 2026

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blandMachine Learning Researcher, Audio$140K – $250K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus