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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