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Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US.\nAs AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations.\nFollowing our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow.\nAbout the role\nSynthesia's long-term vision is to build the best human-interactive models: systems that don't just talk to people, but perceive and respond to them, reacting to a user's actions and emotions, not only their words. Today over 60,000 businesses rely on our platform, and the next leap in what we can offer them depends on models that combine text, audio, and video into a single real-time interactive experience.\nAs a Staff Research Engineer, you'll join the Voice team within our 40+ person R&D department, but your scope will extend well beyond voice. You'll help define and drive that broader vision across teams, proposing ambitious research directions and taking direct ownership of the design and implementation of its most critical components. You'll work directly with our voice lead and collaborate tightly with our video teams and other senior members of the org.\nConcretely, you'll work on voice to voice models that produce text and voice simultaneously. Models that can reason, interrupt the user with back channeling and talk. Models that feel like you are having a natural conversation with, without the feeling of turn taking that is dominant in current speech to speech models. Your role would be to partner in defining a roadmap, implementing it and shipping the outcomes to product.\nWhat you'll do\nShape our roadmap to create new model capabilities and unlock new functionality for our customer base, on both short and long time horizons.\n\nPropose novel multi-modal system architectures (especially text and voice).\n\nDevelop and evaluate streaming and conversational systems for low-latency, interactive voice-video synthesis.\n\nDesign solutions that reinforce emotional expressiveness and natural interaction.\n\nImplement and bring designs to life, from pretraining through post-training.\n\nIntegrate and test novel architectures (neural codecs, diffusion, flow-matching) to enhance realism and responsiveness.\n\nDefine new evaluation metrics for conversational systems, including latency-aware and interaction-based measurements.\n\nTrack the latest research in audio-visual diffusion, autoregressive models, neural codecs, and multimodal LLMs.\n\nCurate new 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