Remote

8 - 10 years experience
Responsibilities

Senior Staff Engineer, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)

www.gnani.ai

Location: Bengaluru Type: Full-time Function: AI Team

About the role

While you're reading this, Gnani is listening to thousands of customers across India — in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and dozens more languages, over noisy phone lines, thick accents, and mid-sentence code-switches. That understanding is our ASR stack. It's the difference between a voice agent that mishears and one that gets it right the first time, in the language and accent the caller actually uses.

We're building the most accurate speech recognition for Indian languages, in real time and at enterprise scale — and we want you to lead the research behind it. As Senior Staff Engineer for ASR, you own the stack end-to-end: advancing accuracy and multilingual coverage, engineering it for streaming latency, and hardening it for the messy realities of production audio. This is a senior individual-contributor role: you set technical direction, design experiments,



and mentor the engineers around you — without a people-management load.

Core mandate

Research

Advance ASR research for Indian languages — accuracy, multilingual coverage, and robustness across up-to-date architectures

Production & performance

Ship streaming and offline ASR with low latency, high throughput, and reliability at scale

Voice AI ASR & Feature Enhancements

Handle real-world audio and build the real-time components conversations depend on

Technical leadership

Guide engineers, design rigorous experiments, and own the standard for how ASR gets built here

What you'll drive

Research & modeling
- Own the ASR modeling roadmap — architecture selection, accuracy, and multilingual / code-switched coverage across Indian languages
- Work across modern ASR architectures (Conformer, E-Branchformer, RNN-T, CTC, Whisper / encoder-decoder, and Speech Language Models) and translate findings into shippable systems
- Push on the

📌 Senior Staff Engineer- ASR (India)
🏢 Gnani Innovations
📍 India