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Senior speech scientist
more than one year ago
Posted:
more than one year ago
Speechgrinder
Company:
Speechgrinder
Helsinki
Location:
Helsinki
We are looking for an experienced speech scientist. You have been building modern ASR and NLU solutions and are up-to-date with the latest developments within the academia. You are comfortable working with the latest machine/deep learning technologies and are not afraid to independently implement the latest research findings. ## You will be working very closely with our Chief scientist, who has been developing Amazon Alexa, Echo and FireTV products.
You will be a central part of our fast growing speech science team responsible for:
- Developing our in-house speech recognition and natural language understanding systems
- Prototyping novel ASR and NLU solutions
- Designing automated data processing pipelines for speech and language data
- Large-scale training of statistical models for ASR and NLU
- Evaluating and benchmarking the ASR and NLU systems
You will be a great candidate for this position if you have:
- Real passion and talent to develop outstanding ASR and NLU solutions
- Strong background in machine learning and previous experience in ASR or NLU
- Good programming skills to develop and prototype ML systems
- Familiarity with large-scale data processing
- Good team work skills
- Traits of an inspiring team lead and have been mentoring junior scientists
We expect you to master most of the following tools and technologies:
- Programming languages: Python, C/C++, Java
- Machine learning: PyTorch, TensorFlow or similar
- Cloud: AWS, Google Cloud
- DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes
- ASR tools: OpenFST, LM tools
- Developer tools: Git, Github
We can offer you a once in a lifetime opportunity to build something amazing with us, and of course also:
- Opportunity to work with state-of-the-art technologies
- Competitive salary
- Employee equity plan
- Awesome office space
- Top-notch kit (latest Macs etc)
- Opportunity to work with a world class & fun team
- Opportunity to contribute into creating our culture
How to apply
Please submit your resume and cover letter to careers@speechly.com. Please describe in your cover letter how have you in very practical terms been developing ASR and NLU solutions. Also please reflect how it compares to the modern state-of-the-art end-to-end architectures.