AI Scientist III – Speech and Language Full-time

Come be a part of our mission and make a meaningful and positive impact with the industry leading provider of language services for the Deaf and heard-of-hearing!

Benefits

• Paid Vacation Time and Paid Sick Time and Paid Holidays
• 401k 6% match with immediate vesting
• Nationwide Medical Insurance plans and coverage (Medical, Dental/Orthodontia, Vision)
• TeleDoc
• HSA company match
• 3 Medical plan options including a Low Deductible PPO Medical Plan Offering
• Employee Assistance Program
• Engaged Employee Resource Groups
• Outstanding Learning and Career Development Opportunities

Pay Range: Actual pay may vary up or down depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for incentive compensation.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and evaluate novel algorithms and models to address complex problems in your area of expertise.

• Train and deploy large-scale AI models, optimizing for performance, scalability, and user experience across diverse domains.

• Collaborate with AI Lab engineers to integrate your models as scalable, real-time AI systems in the cloud.

• Enhance our model serving runtime for efficient serving of speech and natural language models in both streaming and batch applications.

• Consult with product and business teams to identify opportunities for leveraging AI to enhance existing products and create new ones.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities but does serve as a coach and mentor for other positions in the department.

Travel Requirements

Travel Requirements: Less than 25%

Education

Minimum 4 Year / Bachelor’s Degree in a field related to science, engineering, software, or mathematics.

Preferred : Graduate Degree PhD degree in a field related to science, engineering, software, or mathematics.

Experience

• 4+ years of experience working on ASR, NLP or closely related AI field.

• Publications in conferences such as Interspeech, ICASSP, ACL, NeurIPS, or ICML are a plus.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Advanced knowledge in either end-to-end automatic speech recognition (E2E ASR), large language models (LLMs), or natural language processing (NLP).

• Extensive hands-on experience finetuning either E2E ASR models or LLMs using deep learning frameworks like PyTorch.

• Experience using optimized inference engines like OnnxRuntime or TensorRT and model serving runtimes like Triton Inference Server is desired.

• Strong programming skills in Python. Proficiency in C++ and other languages is advantageous.

• Proven track record of solving complex problems with innovative solutions, demonstrating the ability to develop novel algorithms and adapt existing methods to new challenges.

• Familiarity with cloud computing services like AWS for training and deploying models is advantageous.

• Possess strong teamwork skills, a positive demeanor, and effective communication abilities.

• Passion for continuous learning and staying updated with the latest AI research.

• Strong understanding of software development processes for translating research into production systems.

Other General Requirements/Additional Notes

• Must be able to work at a computer for a full workday.

• Must be able to use a keyboard and mouse, or equivalent.

• Must be able to view a computer monitor.

• This position will be a remote/in-office hybrid.

• A team player with a positive attitude and good interpersonal communication skills who can work across company departments.

Company Summary

Our Mission…Harnessing the power of language, we connect diverse people and enrich the human experience.

Our Vision…To provide global language services that expand opportunities, nurture belonging, and empower the world to connect beyond words.

As one of the world’s leading language services providers, Sorenson combines patented technology with human-centric solutions. We strive to increase diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility for underrepresented people through communication solutions for all: call captioning and video relay services, over-video and in-person sign language and spoken language interpreting, translation, real-time captioning, and post-production language services.

Sorenson’s impact vision and plan extends to supporting employment opportunities for diverse employees, customers, and communities. As a minority-owned company, we are committed to expanding opportunities for underserved communities while promoting an inclusive workplace for our own employees.

Equal Employment Opportunity:
Sorenson Communications is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)