Senior Researcher - Speech AI
Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.
Location
Markham, ON | Canada
Job description
Our team has an immediate 12-month contract opening for a Senior Researcher.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement acoustic/speech signal processing algorithms for a range of applications, including event detection, automatic speech recognition, beamforming and speech enhancement
- Conduct research and experimentation to explore new approaches and techniques in acoustics, including deep learning, recurrent neural networks and other machine learning methods
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and integrate acoustic-related solutions into products and systems
- Evaluate and validate the performance of acoustic-related algorithms using quantitative and qualitative metrics
- Develop effective techniques and infrastructure from the idea to the running prototype
- Stay up-to-date with the latest research in acoustics, conversational AI, machine learning, and related fields, as well as incorporate new techniques and approaches into research projects
What you’ll bring to the team:
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with a focus on acoustics, speech processing and machine learning
- Proficiency in Python and at least one of the following languages: Java, C++, or JavaScript
- Experience with deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Keras
- Familiarity with audio/speech processing techniques and libraries such as PyAudio, Librosa, TorchAudio
- Background in machine learning techniques with large amounts of noisy data
- Relevant research experience (publications at NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, InterSpeech, AES, ICASSP, or similar)
- Strong analytical skills and a solid understanding of digital signal processing, statistical signal/speech processing and spectral/spatial filtering
- Experience solving complex problems and comparing alternative solutions, tradeoffs and diverse points of view to provide one or a set of optimal solutions
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