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　　NVIDIA is looking for Speech Data Scientists to develop high-impact, high-visibility Speech AI product "Riva" & improve the experience of millions of customers. If you're creative & passionate about solving real world conversational AI problems, come join our Riva Product engineering team. For more details on Riva check https://developer.nvidia.com/riva

　　What you’ll be doing:

　　Train Speech Recognition (Acoustic, Language, Punctuation), Speech-to-text translation (AST), and Speech-to-speech (S2S) translation models.

　　Develop and maintain speech processing blocks and tools (alignment, segmentation, normalization etc.)

　　Improve processes for speech data processing, augmentation, filtering & Training sets preparation.

　　Measure and benchmark model performance.

　　Gather knowhow on speech datasets for training & evaluation.

　　Collaborate with various teams on new product features and improvements of existing products.

　　Help innovate, identify problems, recommend solutions and perform triage in a collaborative team environment.

　　Lead and mentor junior team members

　　What we need to see:

　　Master’s degree (or equivalent experience) or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or Applied Math with 5+ years of experience.

　　Excellent programming skills in Python, Strong fundamentals in Programming, optimizations and Software design.

　　Hands-on experience on Speech Technologies like Automatic Speech Recognition, Speech Command detection, Text to Speech, Speaker Recognition and Identification, speaker diarization, Noise robustness Techniques, Voice activity detection, End of utterance detection etc.

　　Strong knowledge of RNN-T, CTC, and transformer decoders.

　　Strong knowledge of ML/DL techniques, algorithms and tools with exposure to CNN, RNN (LSTM), Transformers.

　　Know-how of Deep learning applications to Speech and NLP

　　Experience with leading efforts and/or teams developing Speech AI products.

　　Exposure to basic speech digital signal processing and feature extraction techniques like FFT, MFCC, Mel Spectrogram, etc.

　　General background around version control and code review tools like Git, Gerrit, Gitlab.

　　Strong collaborative and interpersonal skills, specifically a proven ability to effectively guide and influence within a dynamic matrix environment.

　　Ways to stand out from the crowd:

　　Experience developing end-to-end and unified speech recognition and translation systems for multiple languages

　　Strong C++ programming skills.

　　Familiarity with GPU based technologies like CUDA, CuDNN and TensorRT

　　Background with Dockers and Kubernetes

　　Background with deploying machine learning models on data center, cloud, and embedded systems

　　With highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package, NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology industry's most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working with us and our engineering teams are growing fast in some of the hottest state of the art fields: Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Speech AI and Large Language Models. If you're a creative engineer with a real passion for robust and enjoyable user experiences, we want to hear from you.

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