# Let's build the future

We are looking for founding researchers and engineers to solve hard problems in frontier generative speech and conversation models.

REMOTE

FULL-TIME

FOUNDING ROLE

## Founding Audio Researcher

We are looking for a researcher to lead our efforts in novel audio LLMs and full-duplex audio modeling. You will be responsible for designing and training the next generation of our speech-to-speech models, moving beyond simple cascading systems to end-to-end architectures.

### The Role

- Research and train novel architectures for real-time speech-to-speech translation.
- Explore full-duplex audio models that can handle interruptions, backchanneling, and overlapping speech naturally.
- Work on voice cloning and style transfer to preserve speaker identity across languages.
- Read papers and implement state-of-the-art techniques quickly.

### Requirements

- Deep understanding of Transformer architectures, Diffusion models, and Neural Audio generation.
- Experience training large-scale models from scratch.
- A "product-first" research mindset. You care about the end-user experience, not just benchmarks.

[Apply for this role](mailto:careers@startpinch.com?subject=Founding%20Audio%20Researcher%20Application)

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REMOTE

FULL-TIME

FOUNDING ROLE

## Founding Applied ML Engineer

We need an engineer who lives at the intersection of model performance and system efficiency. You will own the inference stack, optimizing our models for low-latency real-time usage and on-device deployment.

### The Role

- Optimize large audio and language models for production inference.
- Implement efficient serving infrastructure using vLLM, TensorRT, or custom CUDA kernels.
- Work on quantization and distillation for running high-fidelity models on consumer hardware and mobile devices.
- Handle model fine-tuning pipelines and data engineering.

### Requirements

- Strong engineering background with experience in low-level optimization (CUDA, C++).
- Experience with inference optimization tools like TensorRT, vLLM, ONNX Runtime.
- Familiarity with model fine-tuning (LoRA, QLoRA) and efficient training techniques.
- Deep understanding of GPU architecture and memory management.

[Apply for this role](mailto:careers@startpinch.com?subject=Founding%20ML%20Engineer%20Application)

## About Us

Pinch was founded on the belief that language should not be a barrier to human connection. We are a small, distributed team of researchers and engineers passionate about AI, audio, and design.

We operate remotely but maintain a high-bandwidth culture of collaboration, often traveling to co-work in person. If you're ready to move faster than any research lab you've ever worked at, we'd love to talk.