(Senior) AI/ML Engineer - Speech/ASR/TTS (f/m/d)

Position Description

We are collaborating with a renowned staffing service provider in Belgrade, Serbia, Looking Glass D.O.O. As part of this partnership, we are actively seeking talented individuals for various positions, which will be locally employed by our Serbian partner company.
Join and be a part of a dynamic and innovative team, working under a contractual agreement with our esteemed Serbian staffing service provider.

As a (Senior) Software Engineer at Cinemo, you will play a critical role in the development and enhancement of our AI/ML powered applications for wide range of automotive hardware and OS platforms such as Android Automotive OS (AAOS) and Linux. Your primary responsibility will be to design, develop, and maintain high-quality Cinemo’s in-vehicle infotainment software solutions that meet the needs of our customers.

In this role, you will:

• Design, evaluate and select the ASR/TTS/Audio ML models and underlying software architecture to be used in the next-generation automotive infotainment middleware
• Elevate the in-car experience across different car-lines worldwide by crafting the best-of-class AI-powered infotainment functionality
• Select and tune of the best ASR/TTS/Audio ML models and incorporate them in the wider automotive infotainment middleware software architecture
• Design training protocols as well as continuous improvement of the software stack reflecting advancements in the field of ML

What you will need to succeed:

• Experience in the areas of Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Speech Recognition, Speech Synthesis and Audio Data Processing
• Experience with state-of-the-art speech recognition models and developing ASR-systems (e.g. using Kaldi, Wav2Vec, Whisper, DeepSpeech)
• Fundamental knowledge in developing and evaluating TTS systems (e.g. using XTTS, WaveNet, Tacotron)
• Experience with performance evaluation and optimization of Audio/Speech Processing algorithms
• Strong knowledge of Python, C/C++, PyTorch, TensoFlow, Keras
• Good written and verbal English communication skills