Research Scientist Engineer Speech Recognition at Pearson

We are the world’s learning company with more than 21,000 employees operating in 70 countries. We combine world-class educational content and assessment,powered by services and technology, to enable more effective teaching and personalized learning at scale. We believe that wherever learning flourishes so do people.
Responsibilities:
Perform the entire R&D cycle (building language models, training acoustic models, building statistical models for measuring the performance, etc.) for new and existing products that use ASR and automated grading
Design new algorithms for different purposes (such as improving the grading performance)
Perform data analysis for different requirements
Proactively research ways to apply the latest methodologies to improve the automated grading system’s capability, reliability, and accuracy
Maintain grading system
Qualifications
Required experience will include:
Master’s in Computer Science, Electrical Engineer or relevant areas with 3-5 years working experience; Ph.D. or ABD (all but dissertation) with graduation in plan preferred
Strong desire to integrate research with product development and augment your research abilities with solid programming in C/C++ and proficiency with SQL, Perl (or Python), and Matlab (or R)
Skilled knowledge of speech recognition, probabilistic systems, and statistical models
Strong background in statistical modeling and machine learning
Demonstrate a willingness to learn and apply a wide range of technologies
Experience with linguistic and statistical analysis of natural language would be highly desirable
Experience in designing and running ASR (Automated Speech Recognition) experiments using HTK or KALDI are a plus
Strong written and verbal communication skills
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Job: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Organization: English Language Learning
Schedule: FULL_TIME
Req ID: 6822
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