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Duties/Responsibilities:
- Perform entire R&D cycle (building language models, training acoustic models, building statistical models for measuring the performance, etc.) for new and existing products that use ASR and automated grading
- Design new algorithms for different purposes (such as improving the grading performance)
- Perform data analysis for different requirements
- Proactively research ways to apply latest methodologies to improve the automated grading system’s capability, reliability and accuracy
- Maintain grading system
Qualifications
Required experience will include:
- Master’s in computer science, Electrical Engineer or relevant areas with 3-5 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
To apply for this job email your details to benjamin.vanhorssen@provteam.com