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AI Voice Emotion Recognition Developer

Ulara AI

Remote · $80k – $100k / year · Full-time · Posted 5 months ago

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About the role

Words carry meaning. Tone carries intent. When a customer says "that's fine" in a flat voice, it means the opposite of "that's fine" said with enthusiasm. Our voice emotion recognition system detects frustration, satisfaction, confusion, and urgency in real-time during customer calls — giving contact center agents live coaching signals before a call escalates. The current model handles clear emotional signals well but misses subtle cues: the slight tension before frustration peaks, the polite dissatisfaction that precedes churn, the confusion masked by agreeable responses. You'll improve detection of these early signals by combining prosodic features (pitch, rhythm, energy) with linguistic analysis of what's being said and how it's being said. The speech AI team is five engineers. You'll work closest with the real-time serving engineer who handles the streaming pipeline and the product manager who translates emotion signals into actionable coaching prompts for agents.

Fully remote.

Responsibilities

  • Improve emotion recognition accuracy for subtle and mixed emotional states
  • Combine prosodic and linguistic features for multi-modal emotion detection
  • Build evaluation datasets for nuanced emotional expressions
  • Optimize models for real-time inference on streaming audio
  • Design calibration methods for consistent scoring across demographics
  • Collaborate with product on translating emotion signals into agent coaching

Requirements

  • 3+ years in speech or audio ML with emotion or sentiment focus
  • Experience with prosodic feature extraction and audio processing
  • Strong PyTorch skills for model development and experimentation
  • Understanding of evaluation challenges in subjective classification tasks
  • Awareness of ethical considerations in emotion detection technology

Benefits

  • Fully remote with flexible hours
  • Health and dental insurance
  • $2,500 annual learning budget
  • Quarterly team events
  • Impact-driven role improving customer experiences

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Full-time

Level

Mid-Level

Language

English

Salary Range

$80k – $100k / year

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