Lead Assistant Manager

Role Overview

• End-to-end voice pipelines: mic/telephony → ASR → LLM/NLP → TTS → audio, optimized for sub-200ms latency at scale
• Applied S2S research: evaluate NVIDIA PersonaPlex, Gemini Live, AWS Nova Sonic for production voice agent readiness
• Model integration: ASR (Whisper, NVIDIA Riva, Deepgram, Google Chirp) + TTS (Kokoro, Chatterbox, Cartesia, ElevenLabs, Murf)
• Telephony & streaming: Asterisk, FreeSWITCH, LiveKit, Pipecat integrations; WebRTC audio streaming
• Latency optimization: chunked ASR, first-chunk TTS, WebSocket streaming, TTFB profiling
• Cloud deployment: GPU workloads on GCP (Cloud Run, Vertex AI, GKE) and AWS (EC2 GPU, SageMaker, ECS)
• Full ownership: research → backend service → OpenAPI spec → frontend demo UI → production deployment
• Benchmarking: accuracy, WER, latency, and cost-per-minute comparisons across providers

Requirements

• Bachelor's/Master's in Engineering
• 2-5 years of experience

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• EC2
• Google Cloud Platform

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Paid time off
• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development