Audio Understanding ML Engineer – Speech & Audio R&D

TikTok

Singapore

On-site

SGD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

TikTok is seeking a PhD-level researcher to advance speech and audio understanding. You will work on speech recognition, voice interaction, and audio understanding technologies, integrating cutting-edge research into TikTok and related products.

The role emphasizes independent problem solving within a collaborative team in Singapore. Successful candidates will contribute to scalable model optimization, experiment with large-scale data, and publish or present findings where appropriate, while

Qualifications

  • PhD in CS/Software Development or related field.
  • Hands-on with speech recognition and audio understanding.
  • Experience optimizing models with large-scale data.
  • Strong deep learning experience and PyTorch familiarity.
  • Proficient in C++ and Python; Linux development.

Responsibilities

  • Support the full-duplex voice interaction technology in practical applications, and conduct cutting-edge research in the application of voice interaction.
  • Support the implementation of speech recognition technology in diverse business scenarios both inside and outside the company, and continuously optimize the performance of core speech recognition technologies.
  • Build the core technology system for audio understanding, focus on cutting-edge technologies and algorithm performance in audio understanding, and pursue and explore the most cutting-edge algorithms in the industry.

Skills

Speech recognition
Audio understanding
Voice interaction
Deep learning
PyTorch
C++
Python
Linux
Independent work

Education

PhD in Computer Science / Software Development / Computer Engineering

Tools

PyTorch
Python
C++
Linux
Git

Job description

TikTok is seeking a PhD-level researcher to advance speech and audio understanding. You will work on speech recognition, voice interaction, and audio understanding technologies, integrating cutting-edge research into TikTok and related products.

The role emphasizes independent problem solving within a collaborative team in Singapore. Successful candidates will contribute to scalable model optimization, experiment with large-scale data, and publish or present findings where appropriate, while

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