The European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA), a company specialised in Human Language Technologies within an international context is currently seeking to fill an immediate vacancy for a permanent Technical Engineer/Scientist (Project Manager) position, specialized in Speech and Multimodal technologies.

Technical Engineer / Scientist (Project Manager) in Speech and Multimodal Technologies

Under the supervision of the CEO, the responsibilities of the Technical Engineer/Scientist include designing/specifying language resources, setting up production frameworks and platforms, carrying out quality control and assessment. He/she will be in charge of renovating the current language resources production workflows. This yields excellent opportunities for young, creative, and motivated candidates wishing to participate actively to the Language Engineering field. He/she will be in charge of conducting the activities related to language resources and Speech and Multimodal technologies. The task will mostly consist in managing language resources production projects and co-ordinating ELDA?s participation in R&D projects while being also hands-on whenever required by the development team.

Profile :

• PhD in computer science, speech, audiovisual/multimodal technologies
• Experience and/or good knowledge in speech data collection, expertise in phonetics, transcription tools
• Experience in speech recognition, synthesis, speaker ID and the well-used packages (e.g. KALDI) and the tools to produce, collect and assess quality of resources and datasets
• Experience and/or good knowledge of the Language Technology area
• Experience with technology transfer projects, industrial projects, collaborative projects within the European Commission or other international frameworks
• Good knowledge of Linux and open source software
• Proficiency in Python
• Hands-on experience in Django is a plus
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team, in particular the ability to supervise members of a multidisciplinary team
• Dynamic and communicative, flexible to combine and work on different tasks
• Proficiency in French and English
• Citizenship of (or residency papers) a European Union country

All applications will be carefully examined until the position is filled. The position is based in Paris.

Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Applicants should email a cover letter addressing the points listed above together with a curriculum vitae to: job@elda.org. 

ELDA is a human-sized company (15 people) acting as the distribution agency of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA). ELRA was established in February 1995, with the support of the European Commission, to promote the development and exploitation of Language Resources (LRs). Language Resources include all data necessary for language engineering, such as monolingual and multilingual lexica, text corpora, speech databases and terminology. The role of this non-profit membership Association is to promote the production of LRs, to collect and to validate them and, foremost, make them available to users. The association also gathers information on market needs and trends.

For further information about ELDA/ELRA, visit: http://www.elra.info