Senior Staff - Research Scientist and Team Lead (W/M)

Kyutai · Paris

$210k - $353k

Full-time

Job description

🔎 Who we are

Kyutai is a non-profit lab dedicated to open research in Artificial Intelligence. Our team is laser-focused on few, high-impact projects in frontier AI.

Led by world-class scientists, Kyutai conducts cutting-edge research on multimodal, adaptable and compact models. Less than 2 years after its start, Kyutai has delivered several ground-breaking models: Moshi, the first full-duplex voice AI allowing natural spoken dialogue with latency under 200ms and no imposed speaker turns; Helium-1, a very compact and powerful multi-lingual open language model; Hibiki, the first voice-to-voice simultaneous translation model that preserves voice and can run on a mobile; MoshiVis, the first visual-speech model to allow natural spoken dialogue around visual content; Unmute, a voice AI that empowers any text LLM with voice, instantly, by wrapping it with Kyutai's streaming speech-to-text and text-to-speech.

Accelerating its daring journey, Kyutai is seeking outstanding researchers to develop and lead impact-driven projects in fields like language and speech models, machine listening, computer vision, and world models.

đź“‹ Your missions

As a Senior Research Scientist at Kyutai, you will:

  • Set ambitious research goals and associated roadmaps
  • Organise, lead and support a team to achieve these goals
  • Contribute directly to the research
  • Publish reproducible research with models and codes
  • Mentor interns, PhDs students and more junior staff
  • Be a role model
  • Contribute to strategic partnerships of Kyutai
  • Contribute to Kyutai’s external visibility
  • Contribute to Kyutai's long-term vision with leadership team

🧑‍💻 About you

  • Recognised researcher in ML or related fields
  • 10+ years of experience in competitive environments
  • Excellent publication track record in premiere venues
  • Key contributions to impactful projects
  • Good mentoring experience
  • Experience with leading a small team toward clear objectives
  • Hands-on experience with multi-GPU model training
  • Extreme focus and dedication

🚀 What we offer

  • Research freedom
  • Contributions to AI breakthroughs with an elite team and ample ressources
  • Strong visibility via publications and open models
  • Opportunity to advise PhD students
  • Stimulating, positive and collaborative work environment
  • Competitive salary
  • Assistance with relocation and immigration procedures

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