ML Research Engineer

Wordly.ai
Los Altos, CA
Category Engineering
Remote
Job Description
We are looking for an ML Research Engineer with an interest in NLP to join our new R&D division. You will explore novel approaches to real-world problems that Wordly customers face and develop and prototype new algorithms and solutions to push the state of the art of real-time translation forward.

Requirements

  • Masters degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field with a focus on AI/ML.
  • Strong programming skills.
  • Expertise in the full lifecycle of machine learning, from model development, deployment and serving to monitoring and maintenance.
  • Ability to comprehend academic publications and reproduce results.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to distill technical concepts down to a non-technical audience.
  • Experienced in mentoring junior colleagues with respect to their technical skills.
  • Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal supervision. Can take initiative and make informed decisions as needed.
  • Strong problem-solving skills. Can devise creative solutions and workarounds when problems arise.
  • Comfortable working with a fully remote team.
  • Experience in processing real-time media streams, especially audio streams.
  • Solid understanding of various digital audio concepts (e.g., encoding/decoding, sample rates, FFTs, compression, filtering, etc.).
  • Solid understanding of text-to-speech generation processes.
  • Up to date on state of the art LLM and genAI technologies.
  • Strong understanding of benchmarking and evaluation frameworks.
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