In order to strengthen Nuance’s Embedded ASR Research team, we have created an opening for a:

 

RESEARCH ENGINEER NATURAL LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY

 

As part of our team, you will be creating speech technologies for embedded applications varying from simple command and control up to natural speech dialogue on mobile and automotive platforms.

 

 

Overview:

 

- You will work in the Embedded ASR research and production team, developing technology, tools and runtime software to enable our customers develop and test embedded speech applications.

- You will work at Nuance’s International Headquarters in Merelbeke, a small town just 5km away from the heart of the picturesque city of Ghent, in the Flanders region of Belgium. Ghent has one of the most spectacular historic town centers of Europe and is known for its unique vibrant yet cozy charm.
- You will work in an international company and cooperate with people on various locations such as Burlington (USA), Tel Aviv (Israel) and Aachen (Germany). You may occasionally be asked to travel.
- You will work on the development of cutting edge speech recognition prototypes on PCs as well as embedded platforms, and products for automotive platforms and mobile devices. You will help the engine process multi-lingual natural and spontaneous speech in various noise conditions, given the challenging memory and processing power constraints of the embedded world.

 

 

Responsibilities:

 

- Design, implementation, evaluation, optimization and testing of new algorithms and tools for our speech recognition systems, both for research prototypes and products, with a strong focus on natural language processing.

 

Qualifications:

 

- You have a university degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, computational linguistics, or a related field.


- Very strong software and programming skills are required. Especially in C/C++, ideally for embedded applications. Knowledge of Python is a plus. GUI programming experience is a plus.

 

- Experience with XML processing is a plus.

 

- A good understanding of statistics and machine learning techniques is an asset.

 

- A background in (computational) linguistics, speech recognition, grammars, and parsing techniques is an asset, especially as related to natural language processing, semantics, and representation of meaning.

 

- Knowledge of dialogue systems design is a plus.

 

- You are a team player, willing to take initiative, and are goal oriented.


- You have a strong desire to make things really work in practice, on hardware platforms with limited memory and processing power.


- You are fluent in English and you can write high quality documentation.

 

- Knowledge of other languages is a plus.

 

 

Contact:

 

Dr. Holger Quast                     Holger.Quast at Nuance dot com

 

 

About us:

 

Nuance is the leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world.  Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance by calling directory assistance, requesting account information, dictating patient records, telling a navigation system their destination, or digitally reproducing documents that can be shared and searched.  With more than 2000 employees worldwide, we are committed to make the user experience more enjoyable by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Making each of those experiences productive and compelling is what Nuance is about.

 

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