Research Fellow (Remote)

Nuance Labs is building photorealistic, real-time AI avatars with emotional intelligence: a full-duplex audiovisual system that can listen, speak, react, interrupt, and respond like a real person.

We're a research company, with PhDs from MIT, UW, Oxford, CMU, and Johns Hopkins, and industry experience from Apple, Meta, Amazon AGI, and more. How Nuance Differentiates Most conversational AI avatars today are hacks — a face slapped on a speech-to-speech pipeline, stuck in the uncanny valley: emotionless, mechanical, one-turn-at-a-time. It's an extremely hard problem, and we're developing foundation models designed for it from the ground up.

About the Role We're looking for a part-time Research Assistant to support our research team with day-to-day study operations. The role starts with 1-2 weeks of required on-site training, then transitions to fully remote.

What You'll Do Moderate sessions for data collection studies

Moderate sessions for UX research studies

Perform annotation and QA on collected data

Reliable and comfortable following structured processes

Able to complete required on-site training (1-2 weeks) before transitioning to remote work

Hours: 10-20 hours per week, increasing with experience

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