Senior ASR / NLP Engineer (offline)

Project Description
Automatic Speech Recognition and Machine learning/NLP engineer is required to join AQUA Liquidity Management group to work on a wide variety of speech-related research and development activities, including acoustic modeling, language modeling and tools development. Our speech recognition research is typically data driven and we are particularly interested in unsupervised/supervised techniques to leverage large quantities of data. You should be passionate about creating phenomenal products and will be working with other members of Technical excellence and innovation team on extending and improving components of our speech understanding based on Mozilla/DeepSpeech framework.
Responsibilities
• Application development using Python, C++ and/or Java;
• Development of internal ASR engine using DeepSpeech;
• Work on improvement of DeepSpeech model's accuracy;
• Support integration of the speech SDK into applications developed in Java;
• Ability to implement experiments using scripting languages;
Mandatory Skills
• Experience in building large vocabulary speech recognition systems;
• Thorough understanding of Mozilla / DeepSpeech and Tensor Flow;
• Understanding of NLP techniques for text representation, semantic extraction, data structures and modeling;
• Ability to work efficiently with global teams to leverage existing systems and solutions;
• Experience in C++ and/or Python and/or Java;
Nice-to-Have Skills
• Experience with ASR, Acoustic / Language Models (AM / LM), Inverse-Text Normalization (ITN);
• Experience with data-driven statistical or machine learning methods;
• Experience with ML algorithms like TF-IDF, K-Means, Word2Vec etc.
• Demonstrate ownership and initiative taking;
• Help build CI environment;

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