Speech Recognition/ Software Engineer

IBA InfoTech Inc.

Raleigh, NC, United States

about 2 months ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

ibainfotech.com

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) C++ (Programming Language) Information Retrieval Python (Programming Language) Language Modeling Natural Language Processing Parsing Software Engineering Speech Recognition Scripting Deep Learning Feature Extraction

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Job description

Program primarily in Java, Python, C++, including software engineering, algorithms and API design
Collaborate with a small team of talented engineers to design and optimize code
Extend and maintain a large-scale, carrier-grade automatic speech recognition system and related products
Convey detailed documentation of all designs and procedures
Actively develop enhancements to acoustic modeling mechanisms
Researching and implementing state of the art features into our suite of products
Improve performance of language models and decoder algorithms

Requirements

Extensive background in statistical probability theory, speech algorithms, HMM, GMM, FST, acoustic modeling and advanced machine learning techniques
Experience in Statistical Language Modeling (SLM), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and/or Information Retrieval (IR) is highly desired
Solid programming experience in Java, C/C++, Python, specifically runtime analysis, and design
Experience in designing and running ASR experiments using HTK or KALDI a plus
Able to solve real-world problems using cutting-edge ideas and independent research
Able to read, adapt and implement ideas and algorithms from journals and papers
Able to transfer technical knowledge to peers and management, as well as novices
Knowledge of mainstream speech recognition software, DSP theory, feature extraction, scripting and parsing techniques