Job Overview
- Job Title Senior Researcher, Speech
- Hiring Organization AssemblyAI
- Company Website https://www.assemblyai.com/
- Remote Locations Worldwide
- Job Type Remote, Full-Time
AssemblyAI is growing quickly, and we’re searching for a Senior Researcher, Speech specializing in Speech Technology to join our Speech team! With significant investment and strong leadership to fuel our growth, it’s the perfect time to join AssemblyAI.
Pay Transparency:
AssemblyAI strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size, stage and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide.
There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.
Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.
Salary range: $170K – $230K
Job Responsibilities
- 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
Job Requirements
- 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
Nice to Have:
- 2+ years experience in applied research in the speech or related industry
- Experience of mentoring junior researchers or PhD students in conducting research and getting it published
- 1+ year of experience writing models in Google JAX and training them on TPU hardware
How To Apply
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More Information
- Remote Job Location Anywhere
- Salary Offer $170K - $230K
- Experience Level Mid Level, Senior Level
- Education Level Master's Degree, Doctoral Degree
- Working Hours to be arranged (full time based )
- Job Application Via Custom Application Page