Technologists (m/f) for Speech Recognition Systems

Experience IT – Intuitive Technology: this principle guides our work at the European Media Laboratory. We are an IT enterprise, based in Heidelberg, Germany, focusing on the automatic conversion of speech into text for a variety of markets. Speech technologists and IT specialists research, develop and use state-of-the-art large-vocabulary automatic speech recognition technologies, including deep learning, to convert spoken audio into structured textual data and actions. Our products currently comprise server-based speech recognition for speech analytics, media transcription, voice messaging, voice search and dictation as well as on-device language model and grammar-based speech recognition solutions for house control, car control and smartphones. For further details on our activities please have a look at our brochure “EML Voice - Speech Technology Today” (http://www.eml.org/downloads/PDF/EML_Voice_Heft_2014_web_small.pdf").

For our research and development projects we hire at the earliest possible date experienced

Technologists (m/f) for Speech Recognition Systems

meeting the following criteria:

• Hands-On experience in developing state-of-the-art speech recognition decoders, language models or acoustic models.
• Experience in evaluating and tuning speech recognition systems.
• Fluency in programming languages such as C++, Java, and Python for Linux, Windows, Android or iOS.
• Degree in computer science, mathematics, computational linguistics or related disciplines.

Successful candidates should have several years of applied and theoretical experience in several of the areas mentioned; a PhD or an equivalent level of applied expertise would be helpful. All positions require an application-oriented perspective and a willingness to listen to and act upon customers’ concerns.

You will find a demanding as well as a stimulating working environment.

Interested? Please send us your written application with the subject "Job advertisement EML/07/2016" as soon as possible but no later than November 15th, 2016 to the following address:

Prof. Dr. Andreas Reuter, Managing Director, EML European Media Laboratory GmbH, Berliner Straße 45, 69120 Heidelberg or by E-Mail to Dr. Siegfried (Jimmy) Kunzmann (bewerbung@eml.org), Manager R&D.