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# Research Scientist, Text-to-Speech at Oddin

- **Company:** Oddin
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-02-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/oddin/c5a1bb06-3d06-40de-bb4e-6cbae7b2c7ef

## Job description

## About Valka.ai

Valka, a visionary spin-off from the Realms Group (the parent company of Oddin.gg), is on a mission to revolutionize the way people create and experience digital content.

Our team believes that content shouldn’t just be consumed; it should be co-created in real time, blurring the lines between imagination and reality. By harnessing the power of cutting-edge AI, we aim to build an interactive human-digital platform where virtual characters respond dynamically to each user’s voice, text, gestures, and more.

This is your chance to join a diverse group of innovators who are driven to redefine what’s possible in generative content. Together, we’re changing the paradigm from passive viewing to active participation, unlocking new creative frontiers across gaming, entertainment, education, and beyond.

## What you will be doing

- Research and train fast and quality SOTA TTS models for realistic and emotional voice generation for entertainment and education applications.
- You will be experimenting with different architectures / data to improve the quality and speed of the TTS model(s) and put the best results to production.
- Staying up to date with current research and coming up with new ideas / what to improve is very important for us!
- You will be in immediate collaboration with a team of 3 researchers specializing in TTS, and the product is supported by engineering and hardware stuff to ensure deployment

## Skills you need

- Experience with training some text-to-speech / voice cloning models
- Solid knowledge of transformers, diffusion models, GANs
- Understanding of human speech and audio processing (sampling, spectrograms, vocoders)
- Proficiency in Python and key libraries (e.g., PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers).
- Ability to keep up to date with research, understand papers, implement approaches; strong ML fundamentals and critical thinking

Nice-to-have:

- Familiarity with modern speech synthesis models (GPT-based, flow matching… such as Vevo, StyleTTS, IndexTTS, Maskgct etc.)
- Contributions to open-source AI tools or research publications in Speech processing field
- Familiarity with AWS / similar clusters

## About Oddin

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Oddin.gg is a global B2B provider of end-to-end esports betting solutions, delivering real-time odds feeds, automated risk management, and embeddable iFrame integrations for sportsbook operators.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Prague, Czech Republic
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Vlastimil Venclík (CEO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Esports betting technology / iGaming
- **Target customers**: B2B – sportsbook operators, betting platforms, and gaming companies
- **Mission/purpose**: To transform esports betting through data science, AI, and a relentless focus on uptime, engagement, and integrity.

## Products & Services
- **Esports Odds Feeds**: 30+ pre-match and live odds feeds across major titles (CS2, Dota 2, League of Legends), powered by expert traders and advanced modeling.
- **Risk Management**: Automated, AI-driven risk management designed specifically for esports to boost operator margins and protect bettors.
- **24/7 eSims Content**: Simulated esports events (e.g., Dota 2 Duals, eFootball) that run around the clock to keep bettors engaged.
- **Live Markets & BetBuilder**: Extensive in-play markets with a personalized BetBuilder for pre-match and live combination bets.
- **Back-Office Platform**: Intuitive interface for operators to set margins, create market templates, and monitor matches.
- **iFrame Integration**: Fast, embeddable front-end solution for seamless deployment.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total employee count grew from ~50 to nearly 300 in a few years (as of 2026); BuiltIn reports 159 total employees – conflicting signals, but strong growth trajectory.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No disclosed investors; member of the Esports Integrity Commission (ESIC).
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid scaling across teams, launch of new verticals, expansion into UAE office, and continuous product development.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary AI & Trading Models**: Machine learning models and proprietary trading techniques optimize odds and profitability.
- **Industry-Leading Uptime**: Maintains 90%+ uptime for main markets even during intense gameplay.
- **Esports Specialization**: Full-stack, end-to-end focus on esports (not a general sportsbook add-on).
- **Integrity Commitment**: ESIC membership signals a strong stance against match-fixing and corruption.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Expanding into new verticals (eSims, new game titles), scaling the engineering and product teams, and deepening global operator partnerships.
- **Growth direction**: Continued investment in data science, automation, and a seamless user experience to capture the next generation of esports bettors.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-paced, ownership-driven environment where “focus, accountability, and teamwork” are core pillars. Emphasis on delivery and impact.
- **Work model**: Hybrid – employees combine remote and on-site work (offices in Prague and UAE).
- **Growth**: Rapidly scaling company (50→300 employees) offering opportunities for personal and professional development.
- **Notable perks**: Not explicitly listed, but careers page shows roles like Product Marketing Manager, Chief of Staff, Data Engineer, and Product Designer – indicating a growing, cross-functional team.

## Sources
1. [oddin.gg](https://oddin.gg/)
2. [oddin.gg/about-us](https://oddin.gg/about-us)
3. [oddin.gg/careers](https://oddin.gg/careers)
4. [builtin.com/company/oddin-gg](https://builtin.com/company/oddin-gg)
5. [jobs.lever.co/oddin](https://jobs.lever.co/oddin)

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