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

Work arrangement
Yes