Lyrebird is a Canadian AI startup developing the next generation of speech synthesis technologies. We're named after an Australian bird with an uncanny knack for mimicry; our tech is capable of copying anyone's voice with as little as one minute of audio. As a YCombinator company (S17), we’re backed by some of the best investors in the world such as Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint and SVangel.
Our team is hard-working and motivated, assembled in Montreal from all over the world with a shared vision for the future of speech technology.
What to expect
- You will work on bringing voice technologies of tomorrow to end users.
- Deep learning: Work with our deep learning research team to improve the performance and efficiency of our deep learning models; integrate them in products.
- Product: Implement new features for our growing user base, or improve the experience in our mobile and web apps; create products with state of the art voice technologies
- Infrastructure: Help create a solid and resilient infrastructure to handle hundreds of requests per second for our products and users
Your everyday tools:
- Golang, Python
- MongoDB, Redis, Google BigQuery
- Kubernetes/Docker everywhere
- Google PubSub, Google Dataflow
- Gitlab, Git, Gitlab-ci
- GCP, Azure
About You
- You have a bachelor’s degree in computer science/software engineering or equivalent.
- You have at least 3 years of experience in building kickass backends.
- You breathe Golang; or you want to join the Golang club.
- You understand that a problem is an opportunity for improving things.
- You are not afraid to give your magic touch to code that runs in production.
- This is more than just code. You see the beauty in clean code and robust infrastructures.
- You like to have ownership over the things you do, and having a say in company decisions.
Perks and Benefits
- As if working for a leading company in AI and text-to-speech isn’t enough to be excited about, here are even more reasons to join us!
- We want you focused on your work. We provide a competitive salary and company equity.
- Mac, Linux… Windows!? You choose, we’ll provide it.
- We want you at your best. Unlimited holidays whenever you need to refill mentally or physically.
- Comprehensive medical, vision and dental insurance plans.
- Like trendy areas? Lucky for you, we’re in the heart of the vibrant Plateau Mont-Royal, Montreal.
- Don’t like to cook? Don’t panic, we’ll take care of that too. Paid meals for every employee (yes, even for the interns).
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