ASR Software Engineer

2 months ago


Boston, Massachusetts, United States Merlin Labs Full time

About Us:

Merlin is an early-stage autonomy company, building software to control sophisticated transportation systems. Our mission here at Merlin Labs is to develop hardware and software solutions that deliver the capability for aircraft to fly useful missions autonomously and safely. Our first product will be a certified system to bring automation to existing fixed wing aircraft.

We're backed by some of the top institutional venture capitalists in the country, our headquarters are located in Boston with hubs in Denver, Los Angeles and the Mojave Desert. Come join our diverse, world class team, made up of people from places like Google, Airbus, Boeing, UTC, the US Navy, and the US Air Force.

About You:

We are looking for an innovative software engineer specializing in automatic speech recognition (ASR) to create end-to-end ASR systems geared toward aviation domains. Someone who enjoys researching and implementing state of the art ASR systems and finding ways to make them excel at unique use cases within aviation. Someone ready to work at the intersection of research and product development and has a strong track record for delivering and maintaining high quality software.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead ASR research, design, and development.
  • Design and implement ASR systems for aviation applications such as air traffic control communication.
  • Develop algorithms and models to improve speech recognition accuracy and reliability in noisy and challenging environments.
  • Research and stay up to date with the latest advancements in ASR technology.
  • Work with the larger NLP team to integrate the ASR system with downstream components.
  • Work with project teams to understand requirements and concepts of operation (conops) for the ASR system.
  • Generally contribute to the natural language processing team by following our software and model development process and writing software to integrate work into the larger system.
  • Learn the aviation domain in which the ASR system will function.

Qualifications:

  • BS in Computer Science, Robotics, Natural Language Processing, or a related subject. MS or PhD. preferred.
  • 7+ years experience in designing and developing automatic speech recognition systems.
  • Experience scaling systems to make them high performing given larger scope
  • Fluency in python and either PyTorch or Tensorflow.
  • Experience with linux, open source development tools, software development process and version control tools such as git and weights and biases.
  • Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment and communicate technical concepts clearly.

Nice to Haves:

  • Experience with Hugging Face and model tracking tools such as weights and biases or tensorboard.
  • Experience deploying models in production environments.
  • Knowledge in the aviation space.

Merlin Labs offers an innovative, entrepreneurial, and team-focused startup environment. We also offer a top-notch benefits package (health, dental, life, unlimited vacation, and 401k with match) and work/life integration. Being part of the Merlin team allows you to become part of a small team that supports professional development while working together to achieve our mission.

Merlin Labs is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status. All job offers are contingent upon the candidate passing background, export control and reference checks.

Merlin Labs does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from candidates.


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