Research Engineer-Natural Language Processing, Shanghai, China

Overview:

Overview:  Nuance Automotive specializes in conversational AI technologies for car manufacturers, helping them deliver unique user experiences to their customers. With the Dragon Drive platform, Nuance offers a deeply integrated hybrid solution that can be customized to become an OEM-branded smart automotive assistant which seamlessly integrates into the user’s connected ecosystem.

In this position, you will pursue cutting edge research aligned with Nuance’s long-term AI roadmap. The focus will be on developing or improving deep learning algorithms/models for application in natural language understanding and conversational AI systems.  

We are looking for a research engineer in the area of Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks. You will join our core research team in the Automotive department and help us push the state of the art in Natural Language Processing and related fields, such as Question Answering and Semantic Parsing. You will contribute to the next generation of our in-car voice user interface and virtual assistant.

This position is located in our office in Aachen, Germany. 

Responsibilities: 

We are looking for an excellent Senior Research Scientist in the area of Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks. You will join our core research team in the Automotive department and help us push the state of the art in Natural Language Processing and related fields, such as Emotion Recognition, Question Answering, and Semantic Parsing. You will contribute to the next generation of our in-car voice user interface and virtual assistant.
 

Principal duties and responsibilities:

You will contribute to the next generations of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for automotive applications on embedded platforms and on the cloud. As senior research engineer you will investigate and implement speech recognition algorithms focusing on the integration of the newest deep learning based techniques targetting continuously listening applications. As part of a strong research team, you will be able to contribute key innovations which advance the capabilities of AI and personal assistants in  automotive.

As a Research Application Scientist you will support us in the R&D in natural language understanding (NLU) for Japanese. You will assist in all aspects of planning, developing and maintaining high-quality NLU systems for customers. The job includes new feature development, accuracy improvement, project maintenance, and language-targeted research for improvements.

The position can be filled in the following office locations: Aachen (Germany) or in Burlington, MA (US)

Responsibilities:

As a Principal Research Scientist you will do research into all aspects of speech recognition algorithms with the aim of optimizing accuracy. This will include research into algorithms to increase robustness to various acoustic conditions encountered in real-world data, as well as underlying modelling techniques.

This position can be filled in our office in Cambridge, UK.

Responsibilities:

The candidate is expected to contribute to cutting edge research in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications. The candidate is expected to develop and implement AI and Machine Learning prototypes and solutions for real world problems that are relevant to Nuance and its customers, including user modeling / preference learning, and inference.The candidate is expected to work/collaborate with other members of the group and across Nuance to successfully productize and deploy R&D outcomes.

The position is located in our office in Aachen, Germany.