Senior Research Scientist, Voice Program (ASR)

Position Details

- Lead research projects 

- Lead scientific discussion with other research scientists to develop novel algorithms and initiatives that will support the vast amount of business data and resources

- Define 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.

- Support junior-level research scientists 

- 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 and Japanese 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 businesses by applying innovative solutions to real world problems

- Ability to maintaining science and engineering excellence in a team.

- 2+ years of experience leading a team of scientists