About the role

Agile Robots SE has acquired a majority stake in audEERING GmbH in 2025. This vacancy is to be filled at audEERING GmbH, either in Munich or in Berlin.

We're seeking a highly motivated and talented Senior AI Researcher (m/f/d) for the Audio AI Research team to drive the development and innovation of speech and language technologies, including analysis, understanding and synthesis of speech and audio. 
As a researcher in our team, you can build the future of intelligent interactions via natural language technologies while expanding your own expertise.

Your Responsibilities

• Design, implement or extend cutting-edge audio codecs and DSP algorithms
• Train and evaluate state-of-the-art AI and machine learning models including large language models with architectures such as Transformers, CNN, (Bi-)/x-LSTM in frameworks such as PyTorch
• Contribute to and work with tools and infrastructure for efficient evaluation and benchmarking for AI models
• Create, collect, and curate high-quality and large-scale data sets for AI training and evaluation in collaboration with the data team
• Present research findings in internal research workshops and machine learning seminars, and represent the research team and company at top-tier conferences, as well as network with the research community

Essential Skills

• Min. 2 years of direct experience (in academia or industry) working in one or more of the following areas:
  • Experience with audio, speech or language processing technology, such as digital signal processing, acoustic feature extraction, audio codecs and vocoders, automatic speech recognition, speech dialogue systems, or speech synthesis
  • Experience with generative AI models, such as diffusion models, large language models, or generative adversarial networks
• Deep understanding of machine learning and artificial intelligence, including training algorithms, evaluation and statistics especially for textless speech models, transformers and other (recurrent) neural network architectures
• Strong proficiency in Python and PyTorch (or closely related frameworks), with extensive experience in implementing and optimizing machine learning workloads
• Ability to work in a fast-evolving field, dynamic work environment and to deliver on time
• Excellent team player, problem solver and goal achiever

Beneficial Skills

• PhD in Computer Science or related field
• First-author publications at top-tier conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, Interspeech or ICASSP), publications in top-tier journals in the field, or patents
• Familiarity with MLOps practices and tools
• Experience in building low-latency conversational AI systems
• Experience in deploying large-scale speech AI systems and/or cloud services for audio processing
• Experience with distributed, parallel training on large-scale computing clusters
• Contributions to open-source single or multi-modal LLM projects
• Extensive experience with audio and speech generation (synthesis) and transformation (voice conversion, translation, etc.).
• Experience in psychology or linguistics
• Experience with reinforcement learning
• Experience with multi-modal language models such as audio and vision language models

What we offer

• A dynamic, highly qualified and diverse team in which your contributions are reflected directly in our products and used by our international customer base
• Flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes
• Exciting and varying tasks for our product portfolio
• Excellent working environment, modern office space and flexible working hours with the option of mobile working
• Close connection to academic research (EU and national projects) and a highly innovative company
• Team and company events
• Free drinks, coffee, tea & fruit and snacks

About us

Agile Robots SE is an international high-tech company based in Munich, Germany with a production site in Kaufbeuren and more than 2300 employees worldwide. Our mission is to bridge the gap between artificial intelligence and robotics by developing systems that combine state-of-the-art force-moment-sensing and world-leading image-processing technology. This unique combination of technologies allows us to provide user-friendly and affordable robotic solutions that enable intelligent precision assembly. 

This is made possible by our employees, who bring out the best in each and every day with creativity and enthusiasm. Become part of this team and shape the future of robotics with us!   
   
We are proud of our diversity and welcome your application regardless of gender and sexual identity, nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, or disability.