Senior Staff Engineer, Speech

Key Skills

BERT, C Programming, C++, GPUs, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, Python Programming, PyTorch, TensorFlow

Job Description

Lab Summary

Bixby is an intelligent personal assistant which is only available as a built-in service on Samsung flagship devices and wearables. Bixby uses state-of-art Speech Recognition & Natural Language Processing and Knowledge-Based AI to perform tasks on these devices using multimodal inputs and additional contextual information, including but not limited to making phone calls, sending text messages, setting up meetings, opening apps, setting alarms and timers, getting directions, answering general questions, providing information about restaurants and other businesses, etc.

Position Summary:

For this position we are expanding our Bixby voice technology and features to include advanced research and projects in Wake word detection, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), that includes Acoustic and Language Modeling, and personalization. We also work on language and gender detection using speech signals, Speaker identification, verification and diarization techniques. At SRA we perform state-of-the-art research in multi-lingual/accents research and bringing those research ideas to production. We are looking for candidates with extensive expertise in Digital Signal/Speech Processing with Speech recognition specialization, demonstrated research expertise by publishing papers in reputed journals/conferences, excellent knowledge of Deep/Machine Learning . Here, you'll have an opportunity to be part of a core technology leaders whose innovative designs are pushing the boundaries of what's possible and powering the future. You will be leading the innovation team to build state-of-art Speech to Intent understanding, auto user identification, clustering, emotion detection, voice intent detection and more, also will be responsible for productization of these researches in many Samsung devices such as smart phones, watches, TV, refrigerator, IOT and so on , which will have great impact on real user life.

Position Responsibilities:

• Leading team of AI Scientists focused on innovation and productization

• We are looking for candidates with extensive expertise in Digital Signal/Speech Processing with Speech recognition specialization, demonstrated research expertise by publishing papers in reputed journals/conferences, excellent knowledge of Deep/Machine Learning

• You will be leading the innovation team to build state-of-art Speech to Intent understanding, auto user identification, clustering, emotion detection, voice intent detection

• Will be responsible for productization of these researches in many Samsung devices such as smart phones, watches, TV, refrigerator, IOT and so on , which will have great impact on real user life

Required Skills:

• PHD. in Digital signal processing or similar field with Machine Learning or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience

• MS in Digital signal processing or similar field with 10+ years of experience

• Experience with Tensorflow or Pytorch or similar frameworks

• Worked on advance architectures such as transformers, conformer and other advanced models for ASR systems

• Working experience on ASR in large scale production systems

• Experience in modeling ML algorithms on GPUs at scale

• Experience with multi-lingual speech, low resource speech research and architectures

• Working experience on deploying recognition engines on both server and edge devices