Senior Researcher, Speech (ASR)

What You’ll Do:

• Provide scientific leadership on ambitious research projects that have the potential for a high impact on AssemblyAI’s products and services, as well as on external research and technology communities
• Engage with research communities through activities such as publishing experimental results or participating in conferences 
• Execute those research projects in a scientifically sound manner
• Stay up-to-date on the latest research in the speech domain and share this knowledge across the company
• Replicate and examine state-of-the-art speech models based on conference/journal publications
• Collaborate with the technology leadership team to prioritize the research agenda, define the scopes of research projects, and take charge of their execution
• Collaborate with the engineering team to deploy new models into production

What You’ll Need:

• PhD in Computer Science or a related field; or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field plus equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience in speech research based on deep learning or machine learning in either an academic or industry setting specific research topics include, but are not limited to: 
  • ASR (e.g., model architecture, ASR robustness, acoustic/language modeling).
  • Speaker modeling (e.g., speaker verification, speaker identification, speaker diarization)
  • Self-supervised learning for speech or speech-text
  • Multilingual speech modeling (multilingual ASR, speech translation, language identification)
  • Applications of ASR (e.g., spoken dialogue modeling, speech summarization) 
  • Paralinguistics (e.g., speech emotion recognition)
• A track record of widely recognized research publications at leading conferences; or a demonstrated ability to commercialize research results 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in technical matters