Position details:
- Work on research projects with senior members
- Work with other research scientists to develop novel algorithms and initiatives that will support the vast amount of business data and resources
- Join the discussion on short/middle-term direction of projects while aligning with business, product and engineering team
- Work with Project Management team to gather business requirements, define suitable KPIs and guide members on how to validate if the solution(s) built meets/exceeds the requirements/KPIs
- Support engineering teams and product teams to build large-scale, integrated speech processing systems, using both in-house developed solutions and external vendor solutions
- Contribute to the advancement of science via writing papers, attending conferences and submitting patent proposals
- (Optional) Evangelize in standardized evaluation and benchmarking of ASR, TTS, NLU, and NLG systems
Mandatory Qualifications:
- Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related fields
- Experience in C/C++
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python and shell scripts
- Familiarity with popular toolkits and libraries for voice AI
- Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment
- English fluency and ability to communicate effectively with researchers, engineers and business people
- Self-motivated and willingness to take challenges to new technologies, research problems and services
Desired Qualifications:
- Research and software engineer experience demonstrated via grants, fellowships, patents, internship, work experience, and/or coding competitions
- Research background in speech processing and deep learning
- Experience with machine learning frameworks such as Tensorflow and/or PyTorch
- Experience with end-to-end product development
- Familiarity with DevOps, cloud-related development , and other related development toolkits
- First-authored publications at peer-reviewed conferences (e.g. ICASSP, INTERSPEECH, or similar)
- Passion for contributing to business by applying innovative solutions to real world problem