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Music is much more than listening… it's about creating, sharing, discovering, participating, and connecting with people. With dozens of millions of monthly active users creating over 20 million songs every day, Smule is connecting people all over the world through the joy of making music and transforming the music landscape from one of passive listening to collaborative creative expression and active engagement.\nAbout the Role:We are seeking a Research Scientist for Smule's Applied Research team who thrives at the intersection of cutting-edge ML research and real-world product impact. You will take ideas from the research frontier, or originate your own, and develop them into practical solutions that improve Smule's products, pipelines, and user experience for a community of millions. The ideal candidate combines research depth with strong engineering instincts, a bias toward measurable outcomes, and genuine curiosity about how people make music.\nWe strongly encourage candidates with non-traditional ML backgrounds to apply. If your path into applied machine learning came through audio engineering, music production, signal processing, data science, or another field, we want to hear from you.\nWhat You'll Be Doing:\nDevelop and adapt state-of-the-art ML techniques to solve concrete product challenges in areas such as audio processing, content understanding, recommendation, and generative music, delivering measurable improvements in quality, latency, or user experience.\n\nDesign and run rigorous offline and online experiments (A/B tests, ablation studies) to validate model improvements before production deployment.\n\nCollaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to translate user needs into well-scoped research problems.\n\nBuild prototype models and proof-of-concept systems that demonstrate feasibility and inform production architecture decisions.\n\nPublish applied research findings at relevant venues and contribute to internal knowledge-sharing through tech talks and documentation.\n\nMonitor deployed models for drift, fairness, and performance, implementing continuous improvement loops.\n\nWhat We're Looking For:\nDegree (B.S., M.S., or Ph.D.) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or currently pursuing one.\n\nDemonstrated ability to take research ideas from paper to production, with experience shipping ML-powered features or systems.\n\nStrong skills in experiment design, statistical analysis, and iterative model development.\n\nProficiency in Python, PyTorch or TensorFlow, and standard ML infrastructure (data pipelines, model serving, monitoring).\n\nEffective communicator who can translate between research concepts and product requirements.\n\nTrack record of identifying high-impact problems and delivering solutions with measurable outcomes.\n\nBonus Points For:\nExperience with audio, speech, music, or multimedia ML applications.\n\nFamiliarity with on-device or edge deployment constraints (model compression, quantization, latency optimization).\n\nPublished work at conferences or journals, such as KDD, RecSys, EMNLP, Interspeech, ISMIR, or similar.\n\nSmule is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law.\nWe are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. 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