Telnyx - Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Speech Synthesis)

• 6+ years of experience in machine learning or speech systems engineering • Hands-on expertise with neural TTS, speech synthesis, or adjacent areas (ASR, voice cloning, multilingual modeling) • You’ve obsessed over one or two hard problems, whether it’s building multilingual TTS from noisy data, teaching LLMs to speak, designing self-supervised audio encoders, or making diffusion models run in real time. • Experience with LLM-based approaches to speech synthesis or prosody control • Strong proficiency in Python and PyTorch • Ability to deploy models efficiently (ONNX, TensorRT) • Experience leading small teams and defining technical direction or team executables • Production mindset: You build systems that run fast, stay stable, and are easy to maintain