Machine Learning Researcher, Audio
Quick Summary
Machine Learning Researcher / Engineer, Multimodal LLMs Location: San Francisco, CA or Remote (US) About Bland At Bland.com, our mission is to empower enterprises to build AI phone agents at scale.
Experience with LLMs, multimodal models, or speech-language systems
Deep understanding of prompting, fine-tuning, and alignment techniques
Familiarity with streaming or real-time inference is a strong plus
Ability to reason about full systems, not just models
Comfortable designing interactions between:
model
tools
prompts
runtime constraints
You can go from idea → dataset → experiment → conclusion in days
You know how to design experiments that actually answer the question
Strong sense for what makes an interaction feel natural vs robotic
Ability to translate abstract modeling ideas into user-facing improvements
You take ownership from research through deployment
You thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
You care about impact, not just elegance
You think in systems, not just models
You obsess over latency, correctness, and real-world behavior
You are comfortable discarding ideas quickly when data disagrees
You push toward simple abstractions for complex problems
Nice to Have
~1 min readExperience with real-time voice systems or conversational AI
Background in tool-using agents or agent frameworks
Experience with multimodal datasets (audio + text + actions)
Contributions to LLM or speech-related research or open source
Your work will define how our agents:
understand users in real time
decide when to respond
choose what tools to call
balance speed vs correctness
behave under complex policies
This is the core intelligence layer of the product.
What We Offer
~1 min readLocation & Eligibility
Listing Details
- Posted
- April 20, 2026
- First seen
- May 5, 2026
- Last seen
- May 8, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 0
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 30%
- Scored at
- May 6, 2026
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