Looking to solve complex ASR challenges at scale?

You'll be joining an established conversational AI company with proprietary in-house speech models that process billions of interactions annually, where your ASR expertise will directly impact real-world customer experiences.

You'll be tackling demanding ASR problems in production environments: streaming speech recognition in noisy conditions, robust accent handling and maintaining high performance at scale.

Working across key production environments, you'll enhance speech capabilities and bring new features to production that push the boundaries of what's possible in challenging acoustic environments.

Your focus

• Maintain and iteratively improve existing ASR technology while introducing cutting-edge enhancements
• Work end-to-end across speech processing components: speech enhancement, VAD, diarisation, and ASR (AM/LM modelling, ASR biasing)
• Build streaming ASR systems optimised for challenging acoustic environments
• Implement emotion detection and acoustic condition classification capabilities
• Run extensive experiments to advance activity detection and speech processing performance

What you'll bring

• Strong background in ASR model development and deployment
• Hands-on experience with SOTA speech toolkits (Kaldi, K2, NVIDIA NeMo, Parakeet)
• Proven streaming ASR experience in production environments

This is a fully remote role – must be close to EU timezone. 

Ready to make your mark on speech tech that millions rely on daily? Apply today.

Ready to drive the next breakthrough in speech AI?

This rapidly growing, well-funded tech startup is redefining speech technology with industry-leading accuracy and latency. Their voice AI platform is already outperforming established competitors while supporting languages traditionally overlooked by mainstream technologies.

With a strong client base and significant investment secured, they're now at an exciting inflection point - focusing on building proprietary speech AI systems from the ground up. This presents a rare opportunity to shape the future of multilingual speech technology.

The role

As Lead Speech Research Engineer, you'll direct the technical vision for their next phase of innovation. You'll have the freedom to make foundational architectural decisions and establish new research directions.

You'll work at the intersection of cutting-edge research and practical implementation, with the autonomy to build solutions that push the boundaries of what's possible in speech AI.

What makes this opportunity special

• You'll define research strategy rather than implementing someone else's vision
• Build something entirely new with technical freedom
• Directly influence product direction and company growth
• See your innovations impact real-world applications
• Opportunities to attend conferences and publish research in the future

What you'll do

• Shape the research vision and technical architecture for next-generation speech models
• Develop E2E speech models with proprietary solutions that push performance boundaries
• Guide a growing R&D team on novel approaches and architectural innovations
• Create systems that raise the bar for accuracy, latency, and multilingual performance
• Establish best practices for data preparation and model optimization

What you'll bring

• 8+ years of experience developing ML systems for audio applications
• Proven success building speech models end-to-end, not just fine-tuning existing ones
• Experience with large-scale model training and optimization
• 1st author publications at top-tier speech/audio conferences 
• Deep understanding of modern speech processing techniques and architectures

You'll get

• To work remotely (in EU or US Eastern timezone) or hybrid in Europe. You'll also get to meet periodically with for team gatherings in Europe.
• Salary up to €200K DOE
• Unlimited PTO and comprehensive health coverage
• Generous pension plan and lifestyle benefits

If you're passionate about pushing the boundaries of speech AI and want the freedom to build something revolutionary, this is your opportunity to make a significant impact. Get in touch today!