Research Scientist - Intern

Job Title: Speech ML Research Contractor Location: Remote (UK) Type: 3-6 Month Contract (Full-Time or Part-Time: 20 hrs/wk for PhD students) Role Overview Join an advanced speech research team conducting exploratory,…

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Pay rate £160 – £200/day
Contract type Contract
Posted 24 August 2026

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Job Title: Speech ML Research Contractor

Location: Remote (UK)

Type: 3-6 Month Contract (Full-Time or Part-Time: 20 hrs/wk for PhD students)

Role Overview Join an advanced speech research team conducting exploratory, hypothesis-driven research in text-to-speech (TTS), automatic speech recognition (ASR), and generative audio models.

Open to current PhD candidates (flexible ~20 hrs/week) or recent PhD/MSc graduates (full-time).

What You'll Do

Research and build models for TTS, ASR, voice conversion, and audio generation.

Experiment with modern generative architectures: Transformers, Diffusion, Flow Matching, GANs, VAEs, and Neural Audio Codecs.

Clean, analyze, and evaluate real-world audio datasets at scale.

Collaborate with research scientists with opportunities to publish at top-tier ML venues.

Requirements

Education: Currently enrolled in or recent graduate (within 1 yr) of a PhD or MSc in ML, Signal Processing, or CS.

Core Stack: Hands-on experience with PyTorch and handling complex data pipelines.

ML Depth: Strong theoretical grasp of generative modeling (Diffusion, Flow Matching, Codecs).

Skills: Independent, curious, and comfortable with open-ended research problems.

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