About YAL

YAL.ai (Your Alternative Life) is a revolutionary end-to-end communication and discovery platform reimagining how people connect, interact, and collaborate.

We combine state-of-the-art AI with a Zero Trust Architecture, ensuring every interaction is private, secure, and intelligent. From on-device ASR models and multilingual speech-to-speech AI to fraud detection and real-time discovery systems, YAL.ai is building the future of secure communication.

With our vision “Where AI Meets Integrity”. We’re crafting an ecosystem where users experience privacy-first communication, intelligent discovery, and cutting-edge AI innovation at scale.

About the Role

We are looking for a Speech Scientist to design, build, and improve speech and language models that enhance our product experiences. You will work on challenging problems across the speech processing stack, collaborate with a talented team, and deliver measurable impact through rigorous research and engineering.

Responsibilities

- Research, develop, and optimize models for speech translation, automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), voice activity detection, speaker identification, speech enhancement or related areas
- Design and run experiments, analyze results, and iterate quickly to improve system performance
- Build robust data pipelines for training, evaluation, and deployment of speech models




- Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate speech models into production systems with attention to latency, accuracy, and scalability
- Stay current with the latest research, evaluate new techniques, and propose adoption where appropriate
- Contribute to technical documentation, internal knowledge sharing, and peer code reviews
- Participate in the hiring process and mentor junior team members

Qualifications

- Masters. in Speech Processing, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related field
- 3+ years of hands-on experience developing speech or audio ML models in an industry setting
- Solid understanding of signal processing fundamentals, acoustic modeling, and language modeling
- Proficiency in Python and at least one deep learning framework (PyTorch preferred)
- Experience training and fine-tuning large neural network architectures (Transformers, Conformers, RNN-T, etc.)
- Solid software engineering skills and comfort working in production codebases
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to experimental rigor
- Effective written and verbal communication skills

Nice to Have

- Publications at top speech or ML conferences
- Experience with streaming/real-time speech processing systems
- Familiarity with model compression, quantization, and on-device deployment
- Experience working with multilingual or low-resource speech data

📌 Speech Scientist (India)
🏢 Yal
📍 India