Speech Engineer - Fast Hire

We are hiring a remarkable Speech Engineer to join our high calibre team at Defined.ai in Lisboa.
Growing your career as a Full Time Speech Engineer is an awesome opportunity to develop exceptional skills.
If you are strong in communication, critical thinking and have the right personality for the job, then apply for the position of Speech Engineer at Defined.ai today!

Who is Defined.ai? Well, from a technical point of view, we leverage the power of a global crowd to provide some of the world’s biggest companies with the high-quality data they need to power their artificial intelligence. We’re instrumental to the progression and development of artificial intelligence and we couldn’t be prouder or more inspired to be involved in an industry that is changing the world.

From a personal point of view, we’re a group of big thinkers, high achievers and creative problem solvers. We bond over our shared love of software engineering, data science, and strong coffee. We like online gaming, running marathons, and team drinks. We celebrate authenticity and diversity and we’re invested in what we do. Our mission? World domination, obviously!

Who are we looking for?

Do you have the drive to work in an innovative and ambitious environment?

We’re looking for someone with a determined and proactive mindset, someone inspired and passionate to help us achieve our goals. Our successful candidate is a strong critical thinker, reliable and transparent, with an ability to learn and communicate. We’re looking for someone special to contribute to our unique culture.

What will you do?

• Speech Modelling (ASR / TTS / VAD / Text Normalization) for internal products, as well as external ones partnering with big players in the voice market.
• Apply your knowledge in Speech Processing to solve and productize challenging problems in a conversational AI context.
• Design, implement and optimize speech services on our internal platform.
• Work alongside Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, Data Engineers, Software Engineers and DevOps to create and scale cutting edge speech libraries, tools, models and products.
• Work with other team members (Product Team and Linguists) in designing, testing and implementing solutions supporting up to 40 Languages.
• Write source code with tests to help make new speech tools.
• Carry out structured, concise and reproducible data analysis that generates insights on different types of data.

Requirements

• Background in Computational Linguistics, Speech and Language Technology, or related.
• Software development experience, preferably in Python, working on packaging code into libraries.
• Prior experience with toolkits such as Kaldi, HTK, Attila, HTS, TensorFlow, Pytorch, SpeechBrain, HuggingFace, NeMo, Tacotron, or similar.
• Experience of Bash scripting, to make speech pipelines.

Nice to haves:

• Portuguese native speaking.
• Python data science libraries like NumPy and Pandas.
• Worked in a team with an Agile methodology.
• Versioning systems, preferably Git.
• Knowledge in one of these: Data Science, Machine Learning, Conversational AI (e.g., Rasa framework), Software development, DevOps.

Benefits

You spend a lot of your time at work, so it should be challenging, fun and interesting. At Defined.ai it will be all of those things and more. Here’s what we offer:

• Flexible working schedule and hybrid model. We know comfort can boost creativity and performance, so you can manage your schedule and work both from one of our modern office spaces or home.
• Excellent career development opportunities in a high growth company. With us, you can accomplish your career goals and follow a well-described career path with the support of your supervisor.
• Culture of feedback and continuous improvement. AI is a fast-paced area, so we keep track of tech trends, and we always ask for feedback.
• An international and diverse team. We have more than 30 nationalities at our 3 locations, and we provide language classes.
• Continuous training opportunities. You can choose from many options: leveraging hand-on workshops, unlimited access to Udemy and formal development opportunities.
• We love to have fun together. We joke a lot, and we can't imagine work without fun activities – we already surfed, raced carts and played soccer together.

About Us

Defined.ai offers a platform with multiple data delivery options that leverages machine learning technology and human intelligence to deliver quality-guaranteed training data for AI systems. The platform offers self-service and fully customizable solutions that deliver high-quality project-specific training data, enabling AI products reach market quicker. It is this business model that has allowed Defined.ai to raise a total of $63.6M in funding over 4 rounds. Our value proposition is quality, privacy, speed and scale, covering more than 50 different languages. With strong expertise in speech and natural language processing technologies, we have been serving AI companies and Fortune 500 companies since day one. Defined.ai was founded in Seattle and has offices in Lisbon and Porto.

Benefits of working as a Speech Engineer in Lisboa:

● Company offers great benefits
● Advancement opportunities
● Attractive package