Remote Speech Recognition Research Scientist/Engineer Job in United States Pearson

Who you are

• Master's in computer science, Electrical Engineer or relevant areas with 1-3 years working experience; Ph.D. or ABD (all but dissertation) with graduation in plan preferred
• Strong desire to integrate research with product development and augment your research abilities with solid programming in C/C++ and proficiency with SQL, Perl (or Python) and Matlab (or R)
• Skilled knowledge of speech recognition, probabilistic systems, statistical models
• Strong background in statistical modeling and machine learning
• Demonstrate a willingness to learn and apply a wide range of technologies
• Experience with linguistic and statistical analysis of natural language would be highly desirable
• Experience in designing and running ASR (Automated Speech Recognition) experiments using HTK or KALDI are a plus
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Desirables

• Strong programming skills in C/C++, SQL, Perl/Python, Matlab/R
• Skilled knowledge of ASR
• Background in statistical modeling and machine learning
• Experience with HTK/KALDI
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Linguistic and statistical analysis experience

What the job involves

• Perform entire R&D cycle for new and existing products that use ASR and automated grading
• Design new algorithms for improving grading performance
• Perform data analysis for various requirements
• Proactively research and apply latest methodologies to enhance automated grading system's capability, reliability, and accuracy
• Maintain grading system