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      <Title>Research, Audio Expertise</Title>
      <Description><![CDATA[<p>We&#39;re seeking a researcher to advance the frontier of audio capabilities. You&#39;ll explore how audio models enable more natural and efficient communication/collaboration, preserving more information and capturing user intent.</p>
<p>This is a highly collaborative role. You&#39;ll work closely across pre-training, post-training, and product with world-class researchers, infrastructure engineers, and designers.</p>
<p>As a researcher in this role, you&#39;ll be expected to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Own research projects on audio training, low-latency inference, and conversational responsiveness.</li>
<li>Design and train large-scale models that natively support audio input and output.</li>
<li>Investigate scaling behaviour such as how data, model size, and compute affect capability and efficiency.</li>
<li>Build and maintain audio data pipelines, including preprocessing, filtering, segmentation, and alignment for training and evaluation.</li>
<li>Collaborate with data and infrastructure teams to scale audio training efficiently across distributed systems.</li>
<li>Publish and present research that moves the entire community forward.</li>
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<p>Share code, datasets, and insights that accelerate progress across industry and academia.</p>
<p>This role blends fundamental research and practical engineering, as we do not distinguish between the two roles internally. You will be expected to write high-performance code and read technical reports.</p>
<p>It&#39;s an excellent fit for someone who enjoys both deep theoretical exploration and hands-on experimentation, and who wants to shape the foundations of how AI learns.</p>
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      <Jobtype>full-time</Jobtype>
      <Experiencelevel>mid|senior</Experiencelevel>
      <Workarrangement>onsite</Workarrangement>
      <Salaryrange>$350,000 - $475,000 USD</Salaryrange>
      <Skills>Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Distributed Compute Environments, Probability, Statistics, Real-time Inference, Streaming Architectures, Optimization for Low Latency, Large-Scale Audio or Multimodal Models, Speech, Audio, Voice, or Similar Areas</Skills>
      <Category>Engineering</Category>
      <Industry>Technology</Industry>
      <Employername>Thinking Machines Lab</Employername>
      <Employerlogo>https://logos.yubhub.co/thinkingmachines.ai.png</Employerlogo>
      <Employerdescription>Thinking Machines Lab is a research organisation that focuses on advancing collaborative general intelligence through AI products and open-source projects.</Employerdescription>
      <Employerwebsite>https://thinkingmachines.ai/</Employerwebsite>
      <Compensationcurrency></Compensationcurrency>
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      <Applyto>https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/thinkingmachines/jobs/5002212008</Applyto>
      <Location>San Francisco</Location>
      <Country></Country>
      <Postedate>2026-04-18</Postedate>
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