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# Machine Learning Researcher (Speech/Audio)

- **Company:** Brahma
- **Location:** UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £44,654.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Animation, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Open Source Technology, Pytorch, Information Technology, HuggingFace, Speech Synthesis, GPT
- **Published:** October 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5941235750

## About the Role

* Strong background in machine learning and deep learning, with focus on speech/audio.
 * Hands-on experience with TTS, voice cloning, or related voice synthesis tasks.
 * Proficiency with Python and PyTorch; experience with libraries like torchaudio, ESPnet, or similar.
 * Experience training models at scale and working with large audio datasets.
 * Familiarity with vocoders and transformer-based architectures.
 * Strong problem-solving skills, ability to work autonomously in a remote-first environment.

Nice to Have

 * PhD degree in Computer Science/ Machine Learning and publications in top venues.
 * Contributions to open-source speech research or participation in relevant benchmarks.
 * Familiarity with adjacent areas like lip-syncing, audio-driven animation, or expressive speech control.
 * Experience with voice datasets or proprietary pipelines.

## Description

* Research and develop state-of-the-art voice synthesis models (e.g., TTS, voice cloning, speech-to-speech).
 * Build and fine-tune models using frameworks like PyTorch and HuggingFace.
 * Design training pipelines and datasets for scalable voice model training.
 * Explore techniques for emotional expressiveness, multilingual synthesis, and speaker adaptation.
 * Work closely with product and creative teams to ensure models meet quality and production constraints.
 * Stay on top of academic and industrial trends in speech synthesis and related fields.