ASR Research Scientist: Multilingual Speech & LLM Innovation

ConnexAI; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

ConnexAI, a Manchester-based AI and SaaS provider, is seeking an ASR Researcher to help our agents hear and understand speech. You will join a world-class research team with in-house annotation to curate high-quality data for model training.

You will tackle state-of-the-art ASR challenges, advance LLM-based speech recognition, collaborate with junior researchers, publish papers, and contribute to the full AI agent lifecycle from data to deployment.

Qualifications

• PhD in CS, Speech & Signal Processing or related field.
• Alternatively MSc with 2+ years of research in Speech or LLMs.
• Strong knowledge of Neural Networks, LLMs, and Conformer/Transformer architectures.
• Expert-level Python and PyTorch skills.
• Proven ability to drive independent research with minimal supervision.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Tackle state-of-the-art ASR challenges, including Voice Activity Detection (VAD), turn detection, and multilingual speech recognition.
• Conduct cutting-edge research on LLM-based speech recognition and audio-tokenisation, and push conformer-based ASR architectures to their limit.
• Pair with junior team members to drive research goals and foster collaborative learning.
• Contribute to original research, publish papers, and represent the company at global AI conferences.
• Maintain steady biweekly progression within our sprint-based research environment.
• Write concise technical documentation and research papers.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

Independent research

Speech processing

LLMs

Conformer

Transformer

Communication skills

Education

PhD in CS/Signal Processing

MSc + 2+ years in Speech/LLMs

Tools

Python

PyTorch

Job description

ConnexAI, a Manchester-based AI and SaaS provider, is seeking an ASR Researcher to help our agents hear and understand speech. You will join a world-class research team with in-house annotation to curate high-quality data for model training.

You will tackle state-of-the-art ASR challenges, advance LLM-based speech recognition, collaborate with junior researchers, publish papers, and contribute to the full AI agent lifecycle from data to deployment.