Senior System Software Engineer, Speech AI

Job Description

Widely considered to be one of the technology world s most desirable employers, NVIDIA is an industry leader with groundbreaking developments in High-Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI the next era of computing with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, autonomous cars and conversational AI that can perceive and understand the world.Today, we are increasingly known as the AI computing company. Were looking to grow our company, and build our teams with the smartest people in the world. Join us at the forefront of technological advancement. NVIDIA is looking for Senior System Software Engineer to develop Conversational AI solutions for various NVIDIA platforms (Cloud, Edge, Embedded). If youre creative & passionate about developing and productizing complex solutions in the Conversational AI space, and are an upbeat and dynamic software engineer with excellent analytical ability, we want to hear from you!What youll be doing:

• Work with research and product teams, to develop, build, fine tune and deploy speech neural networks across multiple platforms, as part of Conversational AI solutions.
• Gather knowhow on speech datasets and establish processes for speech data collection and data augmentation.
• Develop and establish a training process, in order to train the speech neural networks towards targeted usecases and environments.
• Build sample applications and APIs around various speech AI components.
• Characterize performance and quality metrics across platforms for various speech AI components, and enable automated tracking of Key Performance Indicators.
• Optimize speech AI components for memory and compute, to the desired budget of the respective platforms
• Investigate pre and post processing techniques as part of the speech pipeline
• Integration of speech/audio components to pipelines and graphs, available within the higher level frameworks
• Collaborate with various teams on new product features and improvements of existing products.
• Participate in developing and reviewing code, design documents, use case reviews, and test plan reviews.
• Work with QA teams to productize speech components and the overall Conversational AI solution.
• Help innovate, identify problems, recommend solutions and perform triage in a collaborative team environment.

What we need to see:

• BE/B.Tech, ME/M.Tech (from reputed schools only) or PhD is required.
• You should possess good programming and scripting skills using C, C, Python with strong software development, optimization, and analytical skills
• Hands-on experience on Speech Technologies like Automatic Speech Recognition, Speech Command detection, Text to Speech, Speaker Recognition and Identification, Noise Reduction Techniques, etc.
• Strong background in Deep Learning that includes Data conditioning, Model design, Pruning and Performance Optimization, Transfer Learning, Deployment etc.
• Exposure to PyTorch and/or TensorFlow Deep learning tools and exporting models for inference
• Optimizing speech inference components/pipelines for resource constrained Edge platforms
• Exposure to basic speech digital signal processing and feature extraction techniques like FFT, MFCC, Mel Spectrogram, etc.
• Knowhow around gRPC and REST interfaces
• Preferred exposure to NVIDIA GPU based technologies like CUDA, CuDNN, TensorRT, etc.
• General background around version control and code review tools like Git, Gerrit and familiarity with computer architecture fundamentals and multiprocessing/multithreaded software programs.
• Experience with Linux OS and Kernel is preferred
• Strong collaborative and interpersonal skills, specifically a proven ability to effectively guide and influence within a dynamic matrix environment

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Enthusiastic and passionate about Conversational AI and bringing the latest Speech solutions to the products
• Hardworking independent self-driven individual

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Keyskills :
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