Senior Research Scientist

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 432,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is at the forefront of the AI revolution, seeking a skilled researcher to join their diverse team. This role involves developing cutting-edge Deep Learning models for automatic speech recognition and natural language processing. You will have the opportunity to design large-scale training algorithms and contribute to open-source models using NeMo frameworks. Collaborating with top academic institutions and publishing research will be key aspects of your work. If you're passionate about AI and eager to make a significant impact in the field, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Equity

Comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Proven understanding of Deep Learning for NLP or Speech Recognition.
• At least 2 years of research experience in speech recognition or NLP.

Responsibilities

• Develop new Deep Learning models for speech recognition and synthesis.
• Design large scale training algorithms.
• Mentor interns and publish research papers.

Skills

Deep Learning

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Speech Recognition

Python Programming

Research Experience

Education

PhD in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Tools

PyTorch

Job description

NVIDIA's technology is at the heart of AI revolution, touching people across the planet by powering everything from self-driving cars, robotics, and voice-powered intelligent assistants! Join a diverse applied research team that is building a next generation of Conversational AI systems! We work on new models for speech recognition, speech synthesis, and natural language processing. Our team crafted Jasper, QuartzNet, CitriNet and other innovative neural models for ASR and text-to-speech. We also developed algorithms to accelerate training large models on our GPU cloud. We release new models as part of NeMo - open-source toolkit for Conversational AI used by many companies for such applications as customer service, voice assistants, etc. We collaborate with research and product teams, as well as researchers from top academic machine learning labs.

What you'll be doing:

• Develop new Deep Learning models for automatic speech recognition, speech synthesis, neural machine translation and natural language

• Design new large scale training algorithm

• Open-source models using NeMo conversational AI frameworks

• Mentor interns

• Publish research papers on top speech and NLP conferences

• Collaborate with universities and research teams.

What we need to see:

• PhD in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering (or equivalent experience)

• Proven understanding of Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing or Speech Recognition

• At least 2 years of research experience in speech recognition or NLP

• Excellent Python programming skills

• Experience with PyTorch

• Strong publications record

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Contribution to open-source projects

• Being reviewers for one of the top speech conferences

The base salary range is 160,000 USD - 431,250 USD. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits. NVIDIA accepts applications on an ongoing basis.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.