Applied Scientist - Core AI Speech

The Core AI Speech Group brings together talents in the areas of signal processing, speech modeling, statistical modeling and deep learning to develop and deliver robust, natural and scalable speech technologies, across a rich set of scenarios and languages. As a science team in the Speech Group, we industrialized deep learning speech technologies and contributed key innovations to the speech community. We work on all kinds of end-to-end speech technologies, targeting the most challenging problems by inventing new algorithms. To that end, we welcome a Applied Scientist II who is passionate at innovating the state-of-the-art speech modeling technologies, which impact millions of users.

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Your responsibilities include developing novel speech algorithms to advance state-of-the-art speech technologies for real world user scenarios, especially in integrating speech with LLM for multimodal modeling. • Help address scalability problems by adjusting to stakeholder needs. • Work with large-scale computing frameworks, data analysis systems, and modeling environments to improve models. • Apply the model to real products, and then verify effects through iterations. • Experiment by putting multiple models in production and evaluating their performance. Continue to monitor how algorithm performs against expected behaviors and performance or accuracy guardrails.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year of experience presenting at conferences such as Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Interspeech or other events.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years of related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research); OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years of related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research); OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year of experience developing and deploying products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping.
• 1+ year of experience developing and deploying live production systems, as part of a product team.
• 2+ years of experience conducting research as part of a research program (in academic or industry settings).
• Experience presenting at conferences or other events in the outside research/industry community as an invited speaker.
• 2+ years of experience creating publications (e.g., patents, libraries, peer-reviewed academic papers).

Applied Sciences IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $85,000 - CAD $166,800 per year.

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Ce poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusqu’à ce que le poste soit pourvu.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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