Speech and Acoustics Team Lead
Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv District, IL
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Verbit
Verbitâs Professional AI transcription & captioning solution provides the highest accuracy & fastest turnaround time for the lowest cost.Description
We are currently looking for a Speech and Acoustics Team Lead to join our Tel-Aviv office.Â
In this role, you will apply deep learning and advanced NLP techniques to develop AI-based products and features such advanced speech to text technique, acoustic and speaker identification, topic extraction, sentiment analysis, audio description and more.  Â
Responsibilities:Â Â
- Lead a team of researchers, facilitate and support team memberâs technical and career growth objectives through training, leadership opportunities, challenging work assignments, and focused mentorshipÂ
- Define research problems based on product needsÂ
- Project manage the teams; delivery to a successful release by tracking work, dependencies, and risks and taking corrective actions as necessaryÂ
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Architects and external partners to build products our customers would love to use on a daily basisÂ
- Explore existing approaches to research problems as well as develop new onesÂ
- Conduct end-to-end data-driven research and development supporting Verbitâs natural language analytics offering for different verticalsÂ
The Ideal Candidate:Â
- M.Sc./Ph.D. in Machine Learning and Speech or any equivalent applied research experienceÂ
- Good understanding of DNNs and experience with PyTorch/TF/other platformsÂ
- 5+ years experience in applied research up to production code level Â
- 2+ years of experience as a team leader in a fast-paced work environmentÂ
- Hands-on experience with ASR tools such as transformers, BERT, GPT, etcâ â a great advantageÂ
- Great interpersonal skills and a team player!Â
- Fluent in written and spoken EnglishÂ
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What Makes Verbit Unique?  Â
Verbitâs team is committed to putting our customers words to work! Join a team of 400 incredible individuals who share a vision of making all video and audio content accessible to people with disabilities and more actionable and engaging for everyone. Verbitâs in-house, AI-based solutions take live and recorded audio and video to the next level. We do more than just provide the best captioning, transcription, translation and audio description - we offer helpful insights through Generative AI and other features on top of these tools. With Verbit, our 3,000 customers globally can make the most out of their content, events and conversations. Leading universities, corporations, legal agencies and media entities benefit from Verbitâs customized offerings and verbal intelligence platform which is built for the needs of speech-intensive industries.Â
Do You Have Verbiez DNA?Â
Verbiez have the initiative to bring goals and dreams to fruition with a can-do attitude and the motivation of true go-getters. Â
Weâre a group of:Â
- Tech-savvy individuals who are always open to more growth and learning opportunitiesÂ
- Adaptable and flexible people who thrive in a fast-paced, startup environmentÂ
- Creative minds who rethink and question how to outperform past resultsÂ
- Effective communicators who can promote and represent Verbitâs tech and brandÂ
Requirements
None* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index đ°
Tags: ASR BERT Deep Learning Engineering Generative AI GPT Machine Learning NLP PyTorch Research Transformers
Perks/benefits: Career development Team events
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