Applied Research Lead - Voice AI & Benchmarking

Location: Bengaluru, India
Employment: Full-time
Reporting to: Co-founder
About Wiingy AI
Wiingy AI is an expert-led human data and model evaluation company. We help teams building AI systems create high-quality datasets, conduct rigorous human evaluations and understand where their models fail.
Our voice work spans text-to-speech, automatic speech recognition, multilingual speech, accents, dialects, code-switching, pronunciation, prosody and real-world acoustic conditions.
We are building a technical research function that connects speech-model science with large-scale human data operations. A central part of this function will be an independent global benchmark that measures how voice models perform across languages, accents, use cases and real-world conditions.
The role

We are looking for an Applied Research Lead, Voice AI & Benchmarking to become Wiingy AI’s internal authority on speech models, speech datasets and model evaluation.

You should understand how modern text-to-speech,



automatic speech recognition and speech-to-speech systems are built, trained, fine-tuned and evaluated.

Your primary mandate will be to build, launch and continuously advance Wiingy AI’s global voice benchmark. The benchmark should become a trusted, transparent and technically rigorous way to compare voice models across languages, accents, tasks and real-world conditions.

You will own the benchmark as a continuing research program rather than a one-time report. This includes its methodology, evaluation datasets, human evaluation system, technical harness, release cadence, public leaderboard and research roadmap.
Primary mandate: Build a global voice benchmark
You will:
Define what the benchmark measures, which users it serves and how it remains differentiated, credible and helpful as voice technology changes.
Establish the initial scope across TTS and ASR, with a roadmap covering speech-to-speech systems and real-time voice agents.
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📌 Applied Research Lead — Voice AI (Bengaluru)
🏢 Wiingy
📍 Bengaluru