Position Overview:

- Lead the development of cutting-edge speech recognition and processing systems.
- Focus on complex tasks: speaker diarization, automatic speech recognition (ASR), Sentiment/Emotion recognition, and transcription.
- Guide a team of engineers and collaborate with other departments to deliver high-impact solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

- Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of speech engineers, providing technical guidance and ensuring successful project delivery.
- System Design: Architect and design end-to-end speech processing pipelines (data acquisition to model deployment), ensuring scalability, efficiency, and maintainability.
- Advanced Modeling: Develop and implement advanced machine learning models for speech recognition, speaker diarization, and related tasks, utilizing state-of-the-art techniques (deep learning, transfer learning, ensemble methods).
- Research and Development: Conduct research to explore new methodologies and tools in speech processing, publish findings, and present at industry conferences.
- Performance Optimization: Continuously monitor and optimize system performance (accuracy, latency, resource utilization).
- Collaboration: Work closely with product management, data science, and software engineering teams to define project requirements and deliver creative solutions.
- Customer Interaction: Engage with customers to understand their needs and provide tailored speech solutions, assisting in troubleshooting and optimizing deployed systems.




- Documentation and Standards: Establish and enforce best practices for code quality, documentation, and model management within the team.

Qualifications:

- Education: Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience: 5+ years of experience in speech processing, machine learning, and model deployment. Demonstrated expertise in leading projects and teams.
- Technical Skills:In-depth knowledge of speech processing frameworks like Wave2vec, Kaldi, HTK, DeepSpeech, and Whisper.
- Experience with NLP, STT, Speech to Speech LLMs, and frameworks like Nvidia NEMO and PyAnnote.
- Proficiency in Python and machine learning libraries (TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Keras).
- Experience with large-scale ASR systems, speaker recognition, and diarization algorithms.
- Strong understanding of neural networks, sequence-to-sequence models, transformers, and attention mechanisms.
- Familiarity with NLP techniques and their integration with speech systems.
- Expertise in deploying models on cloud platforms and optimizing for real-time applications.

Soft Skills: Excellent leadership and project management skills. Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with low-latency streaming ASR systems.
- Knowledge of speech synthesis, STT (Speech-to-Text), and TTS (Text-to-Speech) systems.
- Experience in multilingual and low-resource speech processing.

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