Research Scientist Torino

Research Scientist
Torino
Piemonte, Torino

Principal duties and responsibilities**:

- Provide experimental and theoretical analysis of speech recognition problems.

- Formulate/implement new algorithms and design experiments to verify them.

- Explore new E2E modeling architectures for improving recognition accuracy

- Optimize the accuracy of E2E ASR systems on challenging real-world data.

- Follow external developments in the area to keep our research state-of-the-art.

- Discuss and present ideas and results, reporting progress on a regular basis.

- Write internal technical reports and papers for external publication.

**Knowledge, skills and qualifications**:

**Education**:MS or PhD in CS or equivalent

**Minimum years of work experience**:3 for MS or fresh PhD

**Required skills**:

- Strong background and knowledge of deep learning algorithms.

- Experience with open source deep learning toolkits (i. e.

TensorFlow)

- Python and shell scripting in a UNIX environment.

- Good written and oral communications skills.

- Ability to take initiative, but also follow a plan and work well as part of a team.

**Preferred skills**:

- Good analytical and diagnostic skills.

- Experience of running large scale experiments in a grid / cloud GPU computing environment.

- Experience with sequence to sequence modeling techniques.

- General understanding to speech recognition algorithms

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