Research Scientist - MLLM Training

Nuance Labs is an early-stage deep tech startup focused on building the first real-time human foundation model that integrates text, speech, and vision. The Research Scientist will be responsible for advancing AI technology by developing a unified model capable of understanding and responding to human signals in real-time.

Responsibilities:

• Have a PhD (or equivalent experience) in training multimodal large language models (MLLMs), autoregressive architectures, or related fields, with a track record of pushing the research frontier
• Know deep learning inside out and can run the whole ML pipeline, from data wrangling and rapid prototyping to large-scale training, benchmarking, and evaluation
• Love blank-page problems, chart your own course, and make progress without waiting for someone to hand you a task list
• Move quickly from research breakthroughs to practical, real-world applications
• Write code that’s clean enough your future self will thank you for
• Play well with other brilliant minds from different domains
• Understand fine-grained human signals — from a quirked eyebrow to a subtle change in voice — and infers meaning in context
• Generate lifelike, responsive avatars whose expressions, gestures, and tone evolve frame-by-frame to deliver genuine responses