Senior Research Scientist

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA +2 · Remote

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to join their applied research team focused on building next-generation Conversational AI systems. The role involves developing new Deep Learning models for ASR, speech synthesis, NMT, and NLP, designing large-scale training algorithms, and open-sourcing models using NeMo. The position requires a PhD, significant research experience in speech recognition or NLP, strong Python and PyTorch skills, and a proven publication record.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop new Deep Learning models for automatic speech recognition, speech synthesis, neural machine translation and natural language
  2. Design new large scale training algorithm
  3. Open-source models using NeMo conversational AI frameworks
  4. Mentor interns
  5. Publish research papers on top speech and NLP conferences

Skills

Required

  • PhD in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering (or equivalent experience)
  • Deep Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Speech Recognition
  • Python
  • PyTorch

Nice to have

  • Contribution to open-source projects
  • Reviewers for top speech conferences

What the JD emphasized

  • At least 5 years of research experience in speech recognition or NLP
  • Proven understanding of Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing or Speech Recognition
  • Strong publications record

Other signals

  • building next generation of Conversational AI systems
  • new models for speech recognition, speech synthesis, and natural language processing
  • algorithms to accelerate training large models
  • open-source models using NeMo
  • publish research papers