Researcher (Speech and Audio)

Who Are We?

At HoYoverse, we are committed to creating immersive virtual world experiences for players around the world. In addition to game products such as Genshin Impact, Honkai Impact 3rd, Tears of Themis, and Honkai: Star Rail, HoYoverse also launched the dynamic desktop software N0va Desktop, the community product HoYoLAB, and created a variety of products such as animations, comics, music, novels, and merchandise around our original creative concept.

Adhering to our mission of Tech Otakus Save the World, we have always been committed to technology research and development, exploring cutting-edge technologies, and have accumulated leading technical capabilities in cartoon rendering, artificial intelligence, cloud gaming technology, and other fields.

HoYoverse is actively engaged in globalization, with offices in Singapore, Montreal, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Seoul, and other areas.

What You Will Do:  

• Research, design, develop and evaluate generative models
• High-quality and expressive text-to-speech models
• Lead research to bring Large Language Modeling into speech/audio generation

What We Are Looking for:

• Ph.D. or M.S. with at least three years of research experience in computer science, machine learning, or similar fields.
• Familiar with the recent advance in the field of deep learning and generative models.
• First-author publications in top-tier conferences/journals (e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ICASSP, INTERSPEECH)).
• Self-driven, innovative, collaborative, with good communication and presentation skills.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• 100% employer-paid healthcare premiums for you and your dependents
• Generous paid time off
• 401K plan
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance
• Team-building activities throughout the year
• Flexible working hours

Do We Support Flexible Work?

Yes, as a remote team across North American time zones, we embrace flexible working. You may choose to work remotely, in-offices or hybrid, for a more flexible lifestyle that suits you best. Our offices are located in downtown Montreal and downtown Santa Monica, surrounded by great restaurants, entertainment, and cultural venues.

We are an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds are key to bringing our concepts to life. If you're looking to play a key role in creating the best immersive virtual world experience for our users, we invite you to join our team.