Business Operations Associate
Nuance Labs
Business Operations Associate
Nuance Labs
Builds real-time multimodal conversation AI model
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. Backed by Accel, Lightspeed, South Park Commons, and NVIDIA, we combine frontier research with ruthless engineering needed for consumer-grade, real-time systems. The team is small, the work is real, and the problems are unsolved.
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. Current systems take 2–5 seconds to respond; natural conversation requires sub-500ms. That's a 10x improvement, and it demands rethinking the entire stack.
That rethinking starts with full-duplex: an AI that listens and speaks simultaneously, perceives emotion in real time, and responds with a face that actually reflects it. It's an extremely hard problem, and we're developing foundation models designed for it from the ground up.
We’re looking for a Business Operations Associate to help Nuance Labs run smoothly day-to-day and build the foundation for the next stage of growth. You’ll own our day-to-day finance operations, from expense tracking and vendor payments to month-end close. Beyond finance, you’ll take on cross-functional and special projects across the company. This is a hands-on role with an emphasis on reliable finance execution and practical problem-solving wherever the business needs it most.
$90,000-$135,000 base salary, plus meaningful equity. We think long-term ownership matters and structure equity accordingly.
Nuance Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We believe diverse teams build better AI.
Builds real-time multimodal conversation AI model
Nuance Labs is an AI research lab in Seattle focused on building a foundation model for human conversation and expression that understands words, tone, gaze, gesture and timing, and responds in real time with facial and vocal expression in a single full-duplex audiovisual model. Its approach eliminates stitched pipelines (transcription → LLM → TTS → avatar) by enabling native streaming perception and response, applicable to sales, customer service, coaching, training, and education. The company aims to accelerate model development and provide a public research preview, backed by notable investors. Unlike traditional modular AI stacks, Nuance Labs combines perception, understanding, and immediate audiovisual response in one integrated system. Its goal is to create natural, real-time, multimodal interactions that feel like human conversation while advancing foundation models for communication.
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