Research Scientist – Speech and Audio Understanding (Large Models & Multimodal Systems) at Tencent

The expected base pay range is $141,480.00 to $265,200.00 per year. Actual pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

The position is located in US-Washington-Bellevue.

A Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, or a related field is required, or a Master’s degree with several years of relevant experience. Candidates need a solid understanding of speech and audio signal processing, acoustic modeling, language modeling, and large model architectures, plus proficiency in core speech system development pipelines such as ASR, TTS, or speech translation. Proficiency in deep learning frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow is also required.

Employees may be eligible for a sign-on payment, relocation package, and restricted stock units on a case-by-case basis, plus medical, dental, vision, life and disability benefits, 401(k) plan participation, 15-25 days of vacation, up to 13 holidays, and up to 10 days of paid sick leave.

Strongly preferred experience includes speech representation pretraining (e.g., HuBERT, Wav2Vec, Whisper), multimodal alignment and cross-modal modeling (e.g., audio-visual-text), driving SOTA performance on audio understanding tasks with large models, and experience with multilingual, multitask, end-to-end systems, large-scale training, and distributed systems.