Senior Machine Learning Engineer, ASR

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Ready to join something big? At SoundHound AI, we bring voice, generative, and conversational AI together to transform how people interact with products and services. From voice-enabled vehicles to food ordering and customer support, our multilingual, omnichannel technology already impacts hundreds of millions worldwide.

The Senior Machine Learning Engineer, ASR (C++) (ASR Enablement) position collaborates with engineers, researchers, and voice AI practitioners in the field to help enable various voice AI products for customers across different industries using SoundHound AI's state-of-the-art Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technologies. The role provides opportunities to apply knowledge and experience in both software engineering and machine learning to solve real-world voice AI problems and deliver value directly to SoundHound AI customers.

The Senior Machine Learning Engineer, ASR (C++/Python) (ASR Enablement) collaborates with engineers, researchers, and voice AI practitioners in the field to help enable various voice AI products for customers across different industries using SoundHound AI's state-of-the-art ASR technologies. The role provides opportunities to apply knowledge and experience in both software engineering and machine learning to solve real-world voice AI problems and deliver value directly to SoundHound customers.

What You'll Do

• Train, tune, and test state-of-the-art ASR models for different languages for all SoundHound voice AI products using machine learning and deep learning techniques.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of ASR technologies into SoundHound products.
• Run benchmarks to monitor the performance of ASR solutions and optimize ASR models for accuracy, efficiency, and scalability across various platforms and applications.
• Provide customized ASR solutions to meet any customer-specific or product-specific ASR challenges.
• Triage and troubleshoot customer-related ASR issues and provide timely solutions.
• Work independently and lead technical initiatives to plan, design, and create new tools and features to enhance SoundHound ASR technologies.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members and contribute to knowledge sharing within the organization

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or other relevant disciplines with 8 years of full-time work experience, or a Master's degree with 6 years of full-time work experience
• Experience with automatic speech recognition, keyword detection, or natural language understanding
• Good understanding of deep learning, neural networks fundamentals, and deep learning frameworks
• Proficiency in writing production-level C++ code
• Proficient in writing production-level Python code
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and other containerization technologies in a cloud service environment
• Experience with Kaldi, PyTorch and TensorFlow
• Experience with projects enabling on-device models using TensorFlow Lite
• Knowledge of the end-to-end ASR pipeline
• Experience developing, tuning, deploying, and maintaining ASR models
• Knowledge of NLP techniques related to ASR
• Experience working with customers
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and leading technical initiatives

**We recognize that not every candidate will meet every listed requirement. If you believe your skills and experiences position you to contribute meaningfully in this role, we encourage you to apply. You may offer strengths and perspectives we have not yet considered.

This position is available for remote work throughout France and Germany. Employees within a 100-kilometer radius of the Paris and Berlin office are expected to work from the office on three pre-scheduled, company-wide "core days" per month to encourage in-person cross-team collaboration.

Compensation includes salary, equity, comprehensive healthcare, paid time off, and other benefits. Our recruiting team will provide a specific salary range based on location and years of experience.

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—we strive to build breakthrough AI experiences together.

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