Speech Researcher
Imagine a world where you have an adapted personal assistant who can respond to you as a human would. Vivoka is a French global leader in AI voice technologies founded in 2015. Thanks to its VDK (Voice Development Kit), Vivoka has become a major player in voice recognition. Vivoka’s powerful technology allows any company and developer to configure an embedded voice assistant, consisting of one or more voice technologies in a single day. Vivoka has won several innovation awards and has established leading partnerships with major players in the voice market.
With a team of 30 employees, including a top-notch R&D unit, Vivoka today has a portfolio of about 100 customers from all major industries and is pursuing its goal of bringing people closer to technology through voice.
Your mission
Job’s responsibilities
- You will create the next generation of speech processing engines.
- You will work as part of a passionate and collaborative team specialized in machine learning and speech processing technologies.
- You will have the opportunity to publish research articles and contribute to international patents.
- You will participate in all aspects of projects including proposing ideas, data collection/analysis, literature review, prototyping and development.
Required skills
- You are passionate, creative, and have a collaborative mindset.
- You have a Ph.D. in speech processing or machine learning or a related area. Or you are an exceptional candidate holding a Master’s degree and have a strong experience.
- You are familiar with recent research in Deep Learning and have the knowledge and skill to implement algorithms from research papers.
- You have hands-on experience building ML systems for signal processing or related fields.
- You have a strong programming background with 2+ years of experience in any of the following languages: Python or C++.
- You have the ability to quickly learn new technologies and successfully implement them.
- You are fluent in English.
- You have experience with one or more of the following libraries: Pytorch, TensorFlow.
- You have scientific publications in leading speech or signal processing conferences (like Interspeech, ICASSP, ASRU, etc.) and journals.
- You may have experience with research or development for embedded/edge devices.
Job’s benefits
- At Vivoka, autonomy and trust are important values.
- Every day is a new challenge, you will not experience monotony.
- Each project is an innovation, you evolve in a crazy and stimulating environment.
- At Vivoka, we make every effort for our employees and their well-being.
- You will be located in Metz which is strategically located near the borders of France, Luxembourg and Germany.
- You will have complementary health insurance benefits.
- You will have complementary monthly meal vouchers.