[KITlist-Tech] Speech Recognition Scientist (Sunnyvale, CA)

Please direct your responses to: swright@fluential.com

Title: Speech Recognition Scientist
Location: Sunnyvale, California or Montreal, Quebec
Status: Regular, Full-time, Exempt

We are a well-funded start-up with cutting edge speech recognition that has a disruptive technology platform applicable to a variety of markets and environments for spoken dialog interaction. With an exciting mix of evolving speech-enabled products, we offer excellent opportunities for "rock star" scientists to grow and share in our success. We offer competitive compensation, excellent benefits and a highly creative work environment.

We are currently seeking a talented speech recognition scientist to join our hands-on team, developing our platform spoken dialog interactions. The ideal candidate has a proven track record for optimizing speech recognition performance. This work includes creating the necessary scripts and tools to experiment with novel algorithms to optimize recognition and natural language understanding throughout all stages of a multi-modal dialog system. Additionally, you will be asked to work on statistical language modeling, as well as language model and acoustic model adaptation.

Responsibilities
• Develop tools and enhance algorithms that facilitate deployment and tuning of spoken dialog systems
• Analyze speech recognition performance and implement solutions to provide optimum accuracy
• Use, improve and create research tools to create, update and optimize language models and speech recognition systems for multiple domains
• Evaluate and develop different language modeling and rescoring based on machine learning algorithms
• Document language model development and adaptation process
• Work with the team to design future product releases

Required Skills & Experience
• Ph.D. or Master's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, comp. linguistics, or equivalent
• Speech and/or language processing background (in research and/or industry)
• In-depth scripting experience with Python, Perl or similar
• Ability to own and drive experimental definition, investigations, and ultimately be responsible for the speech recognition performance
• Passion for solving difficult problems
• Strong planning and communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, and ability to troubleshoot issues

Pluses
• Background in natural language processing, machine learning, and/or computational linguistics
• Programming experience in C/C++

Qualified candidates are encouraged to send your resume and cover letter to swright@fluential.com. Fluential, LLC, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. To learn more, please visit us online at http://www.fluential.com

MUST BE LEGALLY AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE US OR CANADA. VISA SPONSORSHIP IS NOT AVAILABLE.



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