Nuance Labs is an early-stage deep tech startup. We're building the first real-time human foundation model — unifying text, speech, and vision — to make AI socially and emotionally intelligent. Imagine an AI that can understand a quirked eyebrow, a shift in tone, or a hesitant pause, and respond in a way that feels truly human. Key Facts $10M seed round backed by Accel, South Park Commons, Lightspeed, and top angels including Synthesia's former CPO. A world-class team of PhDs from MIT, UW, and Oxford with decades of industry experience at Apple and Meta, advancing real-time avatars from cutting-edge research to products used by millions. In-person collaboration, 5 days a week at Seattle HQ This is for you, if Have a PhD (or equivalent experience) in training speech synthesis models (text-to-speech, speech-to-speech, etc.), training audio generation models, or related fields, with a track record of pushing the research frontier Know deep learning inside out and can run the w...