Title: Research Scientist

Opening in our Zurich (Switzerland) office. (Working language: English)

Yandex (company.yandex.com) is the leading search engine in Russia with an extensive set of added value services.

We are seeking an experienced and motivated person to join our team developing basic technology and applications.
The ideal candidate will be able to take responsibility for developing and implementing advanced modules resulting in improved speech recognition performance.

Responsibilities:
-Ability to independently develop new and improved algorithms for speech recognition
-Analyze speech recognition performance and implement solutions to provide optimum accuracy
-Use, improve and create research tools to create, update and optimize speech recognition systems for multiple domains
-Work with the team to design future products


Required:
-Higher degree in speech science, machine learning, or related field
-Experience developing ASR applications - training, tuning, and optimization
-Software development experience
-Programming experience in C/C++
-Excellent communication skills in English
-Willing to relocate to Switzerland


Desirable:
-Experience in advanced aspects of speech recognition (e.g. noise robust ASR, adaptation, discriminative training, decoding methods, etc.)
-Knowledge of scripting languages (especially python)
-Experience in commercial projects in the area of speech recognition and other speech technologies.
-Experience with applications for GPU is a plus
-Background in natural language processing, machine learning and/or computational linguistics is a plus


Interested candidates, please send application to:
barbara@yandex-team.ru