Founding AI/ML - Speech & NLP Engineer

Company: TNA.io

Role: Founding AI/ML - Speech & NLP Engineer

Focus: Al × Hospitality × Voice Technology x Speech Recognition x NLP x LLMs x Voice AI

Stage: Pre-seed / Pre-funding

Location: Philadelphia / Hybrid / Remote

Hours: 20 hours/week

Compensation: Equity / stock options; cash compensation currently unavailable until funding

Opportunity to transition into a paid position following funding

About TNA.io

TNA.io is an Al-powered voice assistant for bartenders

What you will do:

• Build and evaluate speech to text pipelines
• Work with models/ APIs
• Develop bartender specific vocabulary and language models
• Build NLP/NLU pipelines that translate spoken commands into structured actions.

Ideal Candidate:

• Masters in CS, AI/ML, Data Science or related field
• Python experience
• Mastery with machine learning fundamentals, NLP, and speech recognition
• Experience working with APIs and model inference

Additional Necessary Skills:

• Whispr
• Deepgram
• OpenAi/ LLM APIs
• Hugging Face
• PyTorch
• Transformers
• Speech enhancement
• Audio processing
• Vector databases
• RAG
• Intent classification
• Named entity recognition

What you will gain:

• Hands-on experience building a commercial voice AI system
• Exposure to speech recognition under difficult acoustic conditions
• Experience building domain specific NLP
• Real-world LLM implementation
• Production AI/ML experience
• Portfolio work involving a novel hospitality use case