Company Overview

Nuance Communications, Inc. is the pioneer and leader in conversational AI innovations that bring intelligence to everyday work and life. The company delivers solutions that understand, analyze and respond to human language, amplifying human intelligence. With decades of domain and artificial intelligence expertise, Nuance works with thousands of organizations – in healthcare, telecommunications, automotive, financial services, retail, and more – to create stronger relationships and better experiences for their customers.

Job Summary

Summary: As a Principal Research Scientist in the ASR Research group, the candidate will perform algorithmic research on production-scale datasets with the aim of optimizing accuracy, speed and scalability, primarily for end-to-end ASR systems powering Nuance products. This will include research into neural network architectures, ([un/semi-]supervised) training / adaptation algorithms, and data processing / augmentation.

Responsibilities:

• Provide experimental and theoretical analysis of speech recognition problems.
• Formulate and implement new algorithms and design/conduct experiments to verify them.
• Explore new sequence-to-sequence modeling architectures for improving recognition accuracy
• Optimize the accuracy of end-to-end speech recognition systems on challenging real-world data.
• Follow external developments in speech recognition algorithms 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.

Qualifications

Number of Years of Work Experience: 3

Required Skills:

• Strong background and knowledge of machine learning algorithms including deep learning.
• In-depth understanding of speech recognition algorithms including neural network based acoustic and language modelling.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct novel research in speech recognition algorithms.
• Experience with open source deep learning toolkits like 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

Education: PhD in CS or equivalent 

Additional Information

Nuance offers a compelling and rewarding work environment. We offer market competitive salaries, bonus, equity, benefits, meaningful growth and development opportunities and a casual yet technically challenging work environment. Join our dynamic, entrepreneurial team and become part of our continuing success.  

Nuance Communication Inc.  is an equal opportunity employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, age, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation and other legally protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster and its supplement is available here. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please call 781-565-5086 – Human Resources Department and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.