AI Researcher

🌍 Global SaaS Company | $28M Series B Investment | 100% Remote or Hybrid
🚀 #1 AI business communication platform

About CloudTalk

Powered by a January 2024 $28 million Series B investment from top investors like KPN Ventures, Lead Ventures, Point 9, and HenQ, CloudTalk's AI-powered business communication platform helps 4,000+ sales and support teams make customer experience the greatest competitive advantage for driving more revenue.

CloudTalk works seamlessly for businesses of all sizes, from scale-ups like Deel to big players like Nokia, Glovo, and Rakuten. Modern businesses all around the world can lead meaningful conversations while managing calls and messages from one place.

CloudTalk is on a mission to create a unified ecosystem for sales and customer service teams' communication where every professional can engage in more productive and meaningful conversations.

Challenge ahead:

Are you ready to shape the future of AI-driven solutions? Join our AI Team — the cutting edge of our technology. We’re the team bringing the latest innovations and building the best AI voice solutions, from voice agents and AI summaries to voicemail detection.

What you'll work on:

• Design and prototype how AI capabilities are integrated into CloudTalk’s products, considering model limitations, latency, cost, and reliability.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define and ship new AI-powered features for voice and conversation intelligence.
• Research and evaluate new AI models, tools, and architectures to determine the best approach for real-world use cases.
• Build prototypes and proof-of-concepts to validate new ideas before production implementation.
• Implement selected solutions into production systems or work closely with engineers to bring them into production.
• Evaluate and benchmark LLMs and speech models to guide technical decisions and product direction.
• Design and implement automated evaluation pipelines to shorten the feedback loop between research and production
• Improve existing AI capabilities through experimentation, prompt design, and system-level optimizations.
• Maintain a deep understanding of how CloudTalk’s systems work in order to design reliable AI integrations.
• Advocate for best practices in building, testing, and operating AI systems.
• Stay up to date with new developments in AI and continuously assess their potential impact on our products.

What makes you a great fit:

• Experience working with AI systems, especially LLM-based or speech-based applications.
• Ability to design practical AI solutions while understanding the limitations of current models.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking skills.
• Comfortable experimenting with new models, tools, and AI techniques.
• Experience evaluating models and making technical decisions based on real-world trade-offs (quality, cost, latency, reliability).
• Ability to prototype quickly and translate ideas into working solutions.
• Experience collaborating closely with product and engineering teams.
• Basic understanding of how modern AI models (LLMs, speech models) work and how to apply them effectively.
• Data-driven mindset with the ability to analyze large datasets to evaluate model performance, identify patterns in edge cases, and guide improvements to AI features
• Understanding of statistics and experimentation, enabling you to design rigorous evaluations and move beyond intuition-based comparisons toward statistically meaningful benchmarks
• Knowledge of at least one programming language such as Python or Go is a plus.
• Interest in modern AI development workflows, including AI-assisted coding tools.

You can work with these technologies:

• LLM APIs and prompt engineering techniques
• Speech models (ASR / TTS)
• Model evaluation and benchmarking workflows
• AI-assisted development tools (Claude, Cursor, etc.)

Our way of working:

Quick iterations, Agile dev, MVPs, improvements on the go. Technologies are evolving as we speak in our field. If you enjoy building new things and learning on the go, you will like it here. You will also be able to participate in our product with the whole team.

Why you will love to be a CloudTalker:

Growth:
💡 1-1 Coaching sessions with our resident communications advisor
📚 Leaders Academy & Learning and Development Budget

Flexibility:

🏖 Unlimited Paid Time Off
🎗️ Volunteering Days
⏳ Flexible working hours
🤩 Home office budget
💻 MacBook for work

Well-being:
🏖Recharge Fridays once per quarter
🏋🏼‍♀️Fitness Allowance

Connectedness:
💲 Referral bonuses
👥 Virtual & physical team buildings
👕 Company merchandise

What to expect from the hiring process:

• 30-min chat with our Talent Acquisition Team
• Assignment
• 90-min Technical Round
• 45-min Culture Bar Raiser Interview and Offer

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