Responsibilities

About the role

While youre reading this, Gnani is talking to customers across India in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and dozens more languages, switching between them mid-sentence without missing a beat. That voice is our TTS stack. Its the difference between an AI that sounds robotic and one that sounds human, expressive, and unmistakably Indian.

Were building the most natural voices in Indian languages, at production latency and enterprise scale and we want you to lead the research behind them. As Senior Staff Engineer for TTS, you own the stack end-to-end: advancing quality and expressiveness, engineering it for real-time performance, and building commercial-grade voice cloning. This is a senior individual-contributor role: you set technical direction, design experiments, and mentor the researchers around you without a people-management load.

Core mandate

Research

Advance TTS quality, expressiveness, and multilingual coverage experiment across architectures

Production performance

Take models to production with low latency, high throughput,



and reliability at scale

Voice cloning customization

Build commercial-grade cloning and voice design for media and enterprise use

Technical leadership

Guide juniors, design rigorous experiments, and own the standard for how TTS gets built here

What youll drive

Research modeling
- Own the TTS modeling roadmap architecture selection, quality, expressiveness, and multilingual / code-switched coverage across Indian languages
- Experiment across TTS architectures (autoregressive / LM-based, non-autoregressive, diffusion / flow-matching, neural-codec based) and translate findings into shippable systems
- Push on the hard problems: prosody and emotion control, naturalness, code-switching (e.g. Hinglish), G2P for Indic scripts, voice design, audio tags, and speaker / style consistency
- Define and track quality evaluation MOS / CMOS, intelligibility (WER via ASR), speaker similarity and make architecture calls gr

📌 Senior Staff Engineer( Text To Speech-TTS) (India)
🏢 Gnani Innovations
📍 India