💰 $50,000 - $120,000 📅 05/20/2023
### **Chief Technology Officer, CTO (AI VOICE ID, ZK proof), Babylon Voice |
Manan AI, New York**
*Employee • New York, United States • Remote *
We are looking for Chief Technology Officer who will take full control over
all our company tech strategic and business aspects with over 3+years'
experience of working on a CTO or other relevant position with knowledge in
emerging technologies such as AI, Blockchain Cybersecurity, and VR/AR
eperience. Your task scope will include the product based on AI Voice, zk
proof, smart contracts, B2C Media Wallet app with biometcric VoiceID,
providing secure and convenient access to wallets, games, entertainment, and
enabling interactions with brands, influencers, content, and payments.
Generative AI focuses on creating new and original content, voice, chat
responses, designs, synthetic data, deepfakes recognition. Cryptography
Engineering (Blockchain, EVM) Smart Contract (Solidity/Rust, Experience with
Scrum and other Agile methodologies) with over 3 years of Python/C++ and 3+
years blockachain cybersecurity experience. ZK protocol for ML/AI on device.
Our goal at Babylon Voice AI is to empower individuals and corporations to
shape the future of voice-driven experiences while ensuring digital identity
protection in a dynamic digital world. The team has several US-professors as
advisors with expertise in ML, stochastic control who provide mentorship,
research in real world NLU/P, conversational AI, voice/dialog systems. Your
contributions will drive content discovery and personalization through
voice/video interactions across apps, devices (e.g. Alexa, Google Home, etc.),
and automotive products. Your duties will include communication with
employees, stakeholders and customers to ensure our company's technologies are
used appropriately. You should possess strategic thinking and strong business
acumen, being well-versed in current technological trends and familiar with a
variety of business concepts. We also expect you to be an excellent
communicator and public speaker.
<http://babylonvoice.com>
<https://apps.apple.com/us/app/babylon-voice/id1609263929>
About <https://linktr.ee/babylonvoice>
### **Company Overview:**
**Babylon Voice, a cutting-edge technology company, is at the forefront of
revolutionizing the digital identity landscape through AI Voice ID. Our top-10
NYC startup team has earned awards, grants, and recognition in hackathons
fromAmazon, Spotify, Google, Open AI (Microsoft), Deloitte, and Polygon,
Unstoppable Domains. Our team comprises exceptional AI scientists,
cryptography devs, CS and Ph.D. from Stanford, MIT, Google, Discord, World of
Tanks and Telegram. Our technology has made its mark on Minecraft, Fortnite,
Bloomberg, Disney, Republic, JP Morgan, and Roblox. Guiding our journey is a
former partner from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), who has joined as a founder,
having previously sold their gaming startup to Disney. Leading our charge is
our CEO, a Female Founder armed with a Ph.D. in Mathematics, a background as
an MTV host, and selling her startup to Sony Pictures. Babylon Voice is on a
mission to redefine the concept of digital identity using advanced AI
technologies. We employ cutting-edge ML/AI technologies like STT, TTS, STS,
NLP, CVPR, Style transfer using Cycle-GAN and Recycle-GAN, summary search,
Speech recognition, Language translation, and Synthetic Media Generation. Our
target markets include B2B, B2C, Entertainment, Customer Service, Advertising,
Compliance, Security, and Privacy for Non-Pornographic DeepFake. Our vision
centers on the convergence of AI and deep tech, welcoming the next billion
digital users to an era where AI superpowers augment human intelligence. At
the core of our innovation is "VoicePrint," our AI Digital identity standard,
infusing biometric security and synthetic voice capabilities. Babylon Voice
envisions earning royalties for each authenticated human voice, a testament to
our transformative impact.**
### **Why Join Us:**
* We are a fully distributed team with a New York HQ, offering flexible work and schedules;**
* You will have the opportunity to work on turning bleeding-edge research into commercial products, focusing on digital ID and voice AI
* We support a growth mindset and provide paper publications, mentorship, and internships from top researchers;
* We welcome candidates internationally and foster a no-micromanagement environment for highly self-sufficient individuals.
* Our tech stack includes PyTorch wrapped in Flask and running in a Kubernetes cluster, AWS, and a range of great libraries and frameworks such as React, NLTK, PyBrain, NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Keras, Airflow, Docker, Fastapi, Flutter, Node.js, and TypeScript. We leverage 48+ AI/ML networks, including DALL-E and Stable Diffusion AI technology, for 3D avatars in Unity and Unreal Engine 5.
### **As a CTO at Babylon Voice :**
Your responsibilities will include defining and prioritizing the product,
ensuring alignment with our business strategy, and delivering maximum value to
our customers. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams,
stakeholders, and customers to understand their needs and translate them into
clear product requirements and publuc speaking. We prioritize data privacy and
security, empowering users to maintain ownership and authorization over their
private data through their wallets. You should be self-motivated, and be able
to proactively push from the start to finish of each project. Furthermore, you
must be able to analyze and evaluate novel cryptography research and
blockchain technology in the market. You will be responsible for creating and
maintaining the infrastructure that supports voice authentication, content
rights management, and privacy protection. Additionally, you will contribute
to the development of AI-powered content creation capabilities. This system
serves as the digital identity standard for various applications, including
Games, Wallets, Apps, Media, and Payments.
### * Responsibilities and what we are looking for:
* Oversee technical aspects of the company's strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals
* Find and implement new technologies that yield competitive advantage
* Monitor system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency
* Develop quality assurance and data protection processes
* Oversee KPIs and IT budgets to assess technological performance
* Collect feedback from stakeholders to make necessary improvements and adjustments to technology
* Discuss technology strategy with partners and investors
* Build Great Dapps with Voice Auth.
* * Tackle Challenging Problems. Prototype New Features. This means rapidly building prototypes end-to-end, including IPFS/Amazon storage, business logic, UI/UX. Productize Exciting Research. You should be able to understand the requirements of new blockchain algorithms
* Lead EVM/Solidity research, design, and implementation of Voice marketplaces, wallets, and other decentralized systems
* Contribute to Smart contract development for Voice biometrics, Media Wallet on the blockchain
* Work closely with the company’s founders, designers, engineers, and security engineers to ensure the systems are of high quality and delivered to the market in a timely manner. We're working on voice conversion and speech synthesis, text summarization, video, and multimedia Assemble prototypes and MVP
* Initial work could be done remotely with daily Zoom standups with a full team and in-person meetings
* Preferably you would be located and work in our New York, NY office
### **About You:**
* Advanced STEM degree: BS, M.S. or PhD Computer Science, Math, Engineering; MBA or other relevant graduate degree will be a bonus
* Profile: Media, Multimedia data, Cybersecurity, Fintech and Knowledge in emerging technologies such as AI, Blockchain, AR/VR
* 3+ years' experience of working on a CTO
* Knowledge of common algorithms, data structures, and their computational and memory complexities is critical, as well as experience of implementing them from scratch.
* Significant experience in budgets and business planning
* Significant experience in conducting technological analyses and researches to build strategy • Good knowledge of current technological trends
* Strong communication, leadership and organizational skills • Strong problem-solving skills with strategic approach
* Solidity, Vyper, or Rust development experience.
* You are comfortable creating at least simple frontends for blockchain interacting with Dapps. Experience with smart contract static analysis tooling (e.g. Manticore) or formal verification (e.g. KEVM) would be a plus
* Experience with Ethereum Testing Suites (e.g. Truffle, Ganache, Hardhat, Tenderly)
* 1-2+ years of experience in server-side programming languages (e.g. Typescript, Golang, Python, Ruby)
* Experience in development lifecycle automation, continuous development, and continuous integration Proficiency in handling scalability, security, and performance
* Experienced with various technologies, self-motivated, a fast learner, and have a "get things done" mentality
* Humble to embrace better ideas from others, eager to make things better, open to challenges and possibilities
* Strong organizational skills, interpersonal skills, and the ability to juggle conflicting requirements from many different stakeholders
* Proficient English communication skills
* Knowledge of frontend frameworks and technologies e.g. React.js, and Redux would be a plus.
### **Preferred Qualifications:**
Individuals with backgrounds in technical solutions for media, finance,
cybersec or who have worked on Data, AI, DeFi or Dapps products previously
Babylon Voice | Manan AI focuses on Mobile, Digital Media, Enterprise
Software, Games, and Video. Their company has offices in New York City. They
have a small team that's between 11-50 employees.
You can view their website at <https://babylonvoice.com> or find them on
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/babylonvoice),
[Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/manan.al.video),
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mananai/), and [Product
Hunt](https://www.producthunt.com/products/babylon-voice-ai-voice-gpt-and-
voiceid#babylon-voice-ai-voice-gpt-and-voiceid).
