[Remote] AI Scientist – Audio AI

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Artisight, Inc. is a smart hospital platform utilizing artificial intelligence for virtual care and quality improvement. They are seeking an AI Scientist with expertise in Audio AI to develop advanced models and collaborate with teams to integrate these technologies into healthcare environments.

Responsibilities
• Train, fine-tune, and optimize speech and audio foundation models, including large-scale and domain-adapted models.
• Contribute to the architecture of Artisight’s AI platform, ensuring seamless integration of audio intelligence with other AI modalities.
• Collaborate closely with AI scientists, engineers, and product teams to translate research ideas into production-ready solutions.
• Stay up to date with advances in speech processing, generative audio, and multimodal AI, and bring these insights into Artisight’s applied research pipeline.
• Share research outcomes through internal discussions, technical reports, and potentially external publications.

Skills
• Demonstrated expertise in speech and audio AI research, evidenced by open-source contributions or peer-reviewed publications (e.g., ICASSP, INTERSPEECH, NeurIPS, ICML).
• Hands-on experience with one or more of: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Text-to-Speech (TTS) and voice synthesis, Audio-to-Audio / Speech-to-Speech Generation, Audio classification and event detection, Voice Activity Detection (VAD).
• Proficiency in deep learning techniques such as transformers, diffusion models, self-supervised learning, and sequence-to-sequence architectures.
• Strong coding and experimentation skills with frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Experience with large-scale training and deployment tools (NVIDIA Triton, ONNX, or similar).
• A collaborative mindset and ability to communicate research findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with multimodal learning (audio + vision + text).
• Familiarity with federated learning and privacy-preserving AI approaches.
• Experience deploying real-time or low-latency audio AI models.
• Contributions to open-source audio AI projects (e.g., ESPnet, Kaldi, Hugging Face Transformers, Fairseq, Whisper).

Education Requirements
• M.S. or Ph.D. in computer science, electrical engineering, applied AI, machine learning, or related discipline.

Company Overview
• Artisight is an IoT sensor network for healthcare to provide virtual care, quality improvement, and care coordination solutions. It was founded in 2017, and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.artisight.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship
• Artisight has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.