This position is located in Menlo Park, California working for the Ordinate Corporation, a Harcourt Assessment, Inc

This positi= on is located in Menlo Park, California working for the Ordinate Corporation, a Harcourt Assessment, Inc. company. Relocation assistance can and/or will be provided to the incumbent.

Ordinate Corporation, located in Menlo = Park, California, is the world's = only company providing automated spoken language testing, including reading tests for children and other speech diagnostic tools. Using our own speech recognition technologies, we provide services that extract information such= as language proficiency (comprehension, fluency, pronunciation, sentence structure, vocabulary) over the telephone or via the Internet. Our system is used by educational institutions to test incoming students, by companies to pre-screen employees for spoken language abilities, and by the US Departmen= t of Education and other government agencies for widespread language proficiency testing. We are committed to developing systems and instruments that use new technologies to create the most accurate and efficient language assessments available.

Ordinate pr= ovides the fun atmosphere of a small, growing company where there is freedom to le= arn, expand, and make an impact. We're located one minute's walk from the CalTrain station and downtown <= st1:place w:st=3D"on">Menlo Park's restaurants and cafes.

For more information on the Ordinate Corporation, please visit www.ordinate.com

About Senior Research Engineer

Responsible= for advancing the state of the company's ASR technology while working with the sales, marketing and test development teams to solve practical problems from the field. The position demands a person who has broad interests and is motivated to design and implement improvements to the company’s system. Opportunities for fur= ther research in applicable areas are available.

Day to Day Responsibilities

Driving the= R&D cycle (building language models, training acoustic models, building statist= ical models for measuring performa= nce, etc.) for automated grading of different test systems.

Designing n= ew algorithms as required (i.e., improving the grading performance).

Conducting = data analysis

Writing scr= ipts and tools to support the sales, marketing and test development teams.

Maintaining the grading system.

Requirement= s:

MS with 8 y= ears experience or Ph.D. with 5 yrs experience in statistical modeling, artifici= al intelligence, or Speech Recognition.

MS or Ph.D. in EE, CS, or Computational Linguistics.

Knowledge o= f speech recognition or probabilistic systems, statistical models.=

Strong back= ground in statistical modeling and machine learning.

Extensive experience programming in C/C++.

Proficiency= with SQL, Perl and Matlab.

Demonstrate= a willingness to learn and apply a wide range of technologies

Experience = with linguistic and statistical analysis of natural language would be highly desirable.

Experience = in designing and running ASR experiments a plus

Ph.D. in EE= , CS, or Computational Linguistics a plus

Strong writ= ten and verbal communication skills