1.SPEECH RECOGNITION INTERN

Location: Cambridge, UK

Contact: careers@speechmatics.com

“As an intern at Speechmatics I have worked on projects that use real machine learning to deliver real value to people across the world. There are few places where the machine learning being used is at the bleeding edge of the field, but Speechmatics is one of them. The company has an amazing culture that allows you to grow as a programmer and as a person. If you want to be a part of a fast-growing machine learning company where you, personally, will make a difference then Speechmatics could well be the place for you!” 

• Sam Ringer, Machine Learning Engineer (previously R&D Intern), Speechmatics 

Background

Speech technology is one of the most popular discussion items at the moment, yet speech interaction is limited to “Alexa, turn on the light”, or “Siri, where is the nearest coffee shop?” We are taking speech technology to the next level using our expertise in machine learning and speech-to-text technology to enable our customers to use conversational speech recognition. Our solutions power subtitling on TV, content discovery for videos, compliance solutions in banks, improve efficiency of meetings, and many other use-cases. Our mission is to improve human communication with a global speech engine, that works and put speech back at the heart of communication.

At Speechmatics you’ll be working with some of the smartest minds in the industry, working on cutting-edge projects and deploying the latest machine learning techniques to disrupt the market, providing customers with the best speech technology available, all whilst immersed in a progressive and great company culture. You can enjoy benefits including, share options, healthcare, life assurance, Bike Doctor, massages, regular BBQs, Brew Dogs in the fridge, no red tape, a top end laptop and much more. We’re building a company that truly strives to be world-leading and we’re looking for people who wholeheartedly believe they can be additive to our culture, bring new ideas to the table and get stuff done. If that’s you, carry on reading.

The Opportunity

The Speechmatics Engineering team develops and maintains speech-oriented products and services that will be used by businesses worldwide and is responsible for the complete product development cycle for these products. In this internship, you’ll help to support fundamental speech and language processing research to improve our performance and language coverage as well as helping to build products and features to delight our users.

Because you will be joining a rapidly expanding team, you will need to be a team player who thrives in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on investigating ideas and rapidly moving research developments into products. We strongly encourage versatility and knowledge transfer within and across teams. You will be expected to learn fast and feel emboldened to ask for support as you need it.

Prior experience of speech recognition is desirable, although Speechmatics has a team of speech recognition engineers who will collaborate and share any specialised knowledge required. If you are enthusiastic about speech recognition and machine learning in general, with the drive to deliver the best possible technology solutions, then we want to hear from you!

Our internships are not time constrained to specific dates – we can work out mutually agreeable start and end dates as part of the application process.

Key Responsibilities

• Exploring and evaluating research ideas

• Increasing and improving our language coverage

• Prototyping new and improved features

• Helping the company to take your R&D through to production

• Communicating your work internally

Requirements

Essential

• Team player

• Enthusiasm for speech recognition and machine learning

• Technical understanding of speech recognition or related discipline

• Ability to rapidly deliver on ideas

• Competent in Python and/or C/C++

• Have or be studying towards a degree involving speech recognition, machine learning / computer science or related field

Desirable

• Practical experience of ASR and ML packages such as Kaldi, HTK or TensorFlow

• Commercial experience of speech recognition

• Software development experience

Salary

Competitive salary (dependent on experience), flexible working and some awesome benefits & perks.

Interested?

Get in touch! Send your CV and covering letter to careers@speechmatics.com.

2.SPEECH RECOGNITION ENGINEER

Location: Cambridge, UK

Contact: careers@speechmatics.com

'As a Speech Recognition Engineer at Speechmatics, I work on solving a multitude of problems related to improving the accuracy and delivering new features for a global automatic speech recognition engine. As a member of the speech team, I work across every aspect of speech and implement the latest research in acoustic and language modelling. The team is supportive and also rich in terms of skills and backgrounds. Speechmatics offer progressive and rewarding opportunities in one of the best speech technology companies in the world.' 

• André Mansikkaniemi, Speech Recognition Engineer at Speechmatics 

Background

Speech technology is one of the most popular discussion items at the moment, yet speech interaction is limited to “Alexa, turn on the light”, or “Siri, where is the nearest coffee shop?” We are taking speech technology to the next level using our expertise in machine learning and speech-to-text technology to enable our customers to use conversational speech recognition. Our solutions power subtitling on TV, content discovery for videos, compliance solutions in banks, improve efficiency of meetings, and many other use-cases. Our mission is to improve human communication with a global speech engine, that works and put speech back at the heart of communication.

At Speechmatics you’ll be working with some of the smartest minds in the industry, working on cutting-edge projects and deploying the latest machine learning techniques to disrupt the market, providing customers with the best speech technology available, all whilst immersed in a progressive and great company culture. You can enjoy benefits including, share options, healthcare, life assurance, Bike Doctor, massages, regular BBQs, Brew Dogs in the fridge, no red tape, a top end laptop and much more. We’re building a company that truly strives to be world-leading and we’re looking for people who wholeheartedly believe they can be additive to our culture, bring new ideas to the table and get stuff done. If that’s you, carry on reading.

The Opportunity 

We are looking for a talented speech engineer to help us build the best speech technology for anybody, anywhere, in any language. You will be part of a team that is working on our core ASR capabilities to improve our speed and accuracy and develop novel features that we can support in all languages. Your work will feed into our ground-breaking framework to support the building of ASR models in every language pack published by the company. You will be responsible for keeping our system the most accurate and useful commercial speech recognition system available. 

As you will be joining a small team, you will need to be a team player who thrives in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on rapidly moving research developments into products. Bringing skills into the team is as important as a can-do attitude. We strongly encourage versatility and knowledge transfer within the team, so that we can share efficiently what needs to be done to meet our commitments to the rest of the company. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Research and development of improved speed and accuracy across our range of world leading ASR products and related features

• Delivering the software that provides an easy-to-use feature rich ASR product for our customers

• Enhancing our machine learning framework that robustly builds any language with the best possible performance

• Taking data all the way from its raw form through to a finished model

• Working within a team in an agile environment

• Working closely with other technical teams and product team to deliver on the company’s technical vision

Requirements 

Essential 

• Graduate degree in Statistics, Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science 

• Knowledge of key natural language processing or related technologies, such as speech recognition, text-to-speech or natural language understanding 

• Experience working with standard speech and/or ML toolkits, e.g. Kaldi, KenLM, TensorFlow, etc. 

• Solid Python programming skills

• Experience using Unix/Linux 

• Quick and enthusiastic learner

• Excellent teamwork and communications skills

• Analytical mind-set with a data-driven approach to making decisions and attention to detail 

Desirable 

• Postgraduate degree in related discipline 

• Commercial work experience in ASR or a related field 

• Experience of working in an Agile framework 

• Expertise in modern speech recognition, including WFSTs, lattice processing, neural net (RNN / DNN / LSTM), acoustic and language models, decoding 

• Comprehensive knowledge of machine learning and statistical modelling 

• Experience in deep machine learning and related toolkits, e.g. Theano, Torch, etc. 

• Deep expertise in Python and/or C++ software development 

• Experience working effectively with software engineering teams or as a Software Engineer 

Salary

Competitive salary (dependent on experience), flexible working and some awesome benefits & perks.

Interested?

Get in touch! Send your CV and covering letter to careers@speechmatics.com.

3.SENIOR SPEECH RECOGNITION ENGINEER

Location: Cambridge, UK

Contact: careers@speechmatics.com

'As a Speech Recognition Engineer at Speechmatics, I work on solving a multitude of problems related to improving the accuracy and delivering new features for a global Automatic Speech Recognition engine. As a member of the speech team, I work across every aspect of speech and implement the latest research in acoustic and language modelling. The team is supportive and also rich in terms of skills and backgrounds. Speechmatics offer progressive and rewarding opportunities in one of the best speech technology companies in the world.'

• André Mansikkaniemi, Speech Recognition Engineer, Speechmatics

Background

Speech technology is one of the most popular discussion items at the moment, yet speech interaction is limited to “Alexa, turn on the light”, or “Siri, where is the nearest coffee shop?” We are taking speech technology to the next level using our expertise in machine learning and speech-to-text technology to enable our customers to use conversational speech recognition. Our solutions power subtitling on TV, content discovery for videos, compliance solutions in banks, improve efficiency of meetings, and many other use-cases. Our mission is to improve human communication with a global speech engine, that works and put speech back at the heart of communication.

At Speechmatics you’ll be working with some of the smartest minds in the industry, working on cutting-edge projects and deploying the latest machine learning techniques to disrupt the market, providing customers with the best speech technology available, all whilst immersed in a progressive and great company culture. You can enjoy benefits including, share options, healthcare, life assurance, Bike Doctor, massages, regular BBQs, Brew Dogs in the fridge, no red tape, a top end laptop and much more. We’re building a company that truly strives to be world-leading and we’re looking for people who wholeheartedly believe they can be additive to our culture, bring new ideas to the table and get stuff done. If that’s you, carry on reading.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a talented speech engineer to help us build the best speech technology for anybody, anywhere, in any language. You will be part of a team that is working on our core ASR capabilities to improve our speed and accuracy and develop novel features that we can support in all languages. Your work will feed into our ground-breaking framework to support the building of ASR models in every language pack published by the company. You will be responsible for keeping our system the most accurate and useful commercial speech recognition system available.

As you will be joining a small team, you will need to be a team player who thrives in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on rapidly moving research developments into products. Bringing skills into the team is as important as a can-do attitude. We strongly encourage versatility and knowledge transfer within the team, so that we can share efficiently what needs to be done to meet our commitments to the rest of the company.

Key Responsibilities

• Research and development of improved speed and accuracy across our range of world leading ASR products and related features

• Delivering the software that provides an easy-to-use feature rich ASR product for our customers

• Enhancing our machine learning framework that robustly builds any language with the best possible performance

• Taking data all the way from its raw form through to a finished model

• Working within a team in an agile environment

• Working closely with other technical teams and product team to deliver on the company’s technical vision

Requirements

Essential

• Commercial experience in ASR or a related field

• Graduate degree in Statistics, Engineering, Mathematics, or Computer Science

• Expertise in modern speech recognition, including WFSTs, lattice processing, neural net (RNN / DNN / LSTM), acoustic and language models, decoding

• Experience working with standard speech and/or ML toolkits, e.g. Kaldi, KenLM, TensorFlow, etc.

• Solid Python programming skills

• Experience using Unix/Linux

• Drive to help those around you learn and improve every day

• Excellent teamwork and communications skills

• Analytical mind-set with a data-driven approach to making decisions and attention to detail

Desirable

• Postgraduate degree in related discipline

• Experience of working in an Agile framework

• Comprehensive knowledge of machine learning and statistical modelling

• Experience in deep machine learning and related toolkits, e.g. Theano, Torch, etc.

• Deep expertise in Python and/or C++ software development

• Experience working effectively with software engineering teams or as a Software Engineer

Salary

Competitive salary (dependent on experience), flexible working and some awesome benefits & perks.

Interested?

Get in touch! Send your CV and covering letter to careers@speechmatics.com.

More about Speechmatics’ culture

Live for the wow | Build authentic relationships | Be the adventure

Innovation is what we do. We build, we iterate, we develop the next thing that delivers that wow moment. We see value in building long-term, authentic relationships that last and are based on trust and honesty. With our customers, our colleagues, our leaders, our suppliers or within our local community. Our journey should be fun and exciting. We will celebrate our successes and learn from our mistakes together along the way. We embrace learning and change to grow naturally and organically as a company and individuals. We trust, we’re honest, kind and respectful.