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Sensory offers an exciting opportunity at a growing technology company targeting consumer products with cutting edge speech recognition technologies and chips.
Sensory is the leader in a growing market for voice user interfaces in consumer electronics. Notable Sensory specialties are voice interfaces for mobile communications,
entertainment robotics, home automation and automotive. Sensory has design wins with major players in all these fields.
Position Title: Field Application Engineer
Job Code: 13-03
Qualifications
Sensory is seeking a person with superior communication skills, solid knowledge of
programming and embedded hardware platforms, the ability to diagnose and solve
problems and interest in speech technology.
Primary Duties/Responsibilities
- Support customer development, research and answer technical questions
- Test and deliver custom tuned recognition data files to customers
- Create and maintain a wiki/knowledge base of support information
- Write and maintain design guides and other documentation
- Develop demos and reference apps to assist customers to develop their own
- Review system designs and recommend changes to improve reocgnition performance
- Analyze failures in customers' systems and devise solutions and workarounds
- Occasional travel to customer locations to assist in development or troubleshooting
Requirements
- Master's or Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science required
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills required
- Proficiency in C, assembly and Java required
- Experience with hardware and software development on embedded systems required
Preferences
- 5 or more years of industry experience preferred
- Experience working in a technical support position preferred
- Experience with Android application development preferred
- Familiarity with iOS and/or LINUX preferred
- Knowledge of speech technology and signal processing preferred
Position Title: Speech Data Specialist
Job Code: 13-02
Qualifications
Seeking an organized, detail-oriented individual with an interest in speech
technology to bring creativity to speech data collection. Must have strong interpersonal
skills and must be able to work independently, quickly learn to use new tools and technologies,
and travel, internationally and domestically.
Primary Responsibilities
- Identify and work with various organizations to acquire speech data, recruit speakers,
and coordinate data collection
- Make travel arrangements and travel to locations within the US and abroad for speech data collection
- Set up recording equipment and moderate recording sessions
- Review audio data and maintain corpora
Requirements and Preferences
- International travel experience or experience with foreign cultures required
- Computer literacy required
- Ability to interpret spectrograms preferred
- Experience with audio equipment or audio software preferred
- One or more years of industry experience preferred
- Fluency in at least one foreign language preferred
Position Title: Computer Vision\SW Engineering Lead
Job Code: 13-01
Location: Santa Clara, CA or Portland OR
Job Description
The Computer Vision Engineering Lead is a hands-on role to develop and implement image processing algorithms that
will combine with speech recognition technology to create improved user experiences in consumer and mobile electronic
products. The Lead will launch Sensory's expansion into vision technology and will build a small group and/or work with
outside consultants or other vision companies to rapidly deploy solutions that will go to market in large volume a
pplications.
Requirements/Preferences/Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering required
- MS or Ph.D. from top school preferred
- 5 -10 years' experience hands on designing, writing, and testing embedded
Real-time C/C++ software and algorithms in MATLAB and OpenCV
- Experience in product development using computer vision and image
processing algorithms
- Strong familiarity with open source vision software libraries
- Understanding of feature extraction, image detection and tracking, face
identification/verification, demographic (e.g. gender and age) detection, and lip
tracking preferred
- Practical work experience in understanding and integrating OpenCV algorithms into applications.
- Understanding of mobile environments and coding including Android platform strongly preferred
- Experience in patent disclosures and applications preferred
- Creative, self-starter, motivated, analytical, with practical orientation in getting
problems solved and products to market
- Previous management or team leadership experience preferred
- Industry experience and contacts
Position Title: Application Engineer
Job Code: 12-01
Qualifications
Sensory is seeking a person with solid programming skills, experience with mobile/embedded systems and interest in speech technology.
Primary Duties/Responsibilities
- Developing applications for mobile devices
- Maintaining and supporting existing speech tools and products
- Porting speech technology to embedded and mobile platforms
Requirements and Preferences
- Master's or Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science required
- Experience with a variety of operating systems required
- Proficiency in C, Tcl/Perl and Java required
- Experience with software development on embedded systems and mobile devices required
- Experience with web development required
- Experience with iOS and/or Android application development required.
- Familiarity with LINUX preferred
- Knowledge of speech technology and signal processing preferred
- 1 or more years of industry experience preferred
Position Title: Linguist
Job Code: 12-02
Qualifications
Seeking Linguist with interest in speech technology. Must be able to juggle multiple projects and priorities, and very organized with strong attention to detail.
Must be a fast learner interest in phonetics, phonology and technical concepts. Must be comfortable with customer interaction.
Primary Duties/Responsibilities
- Develop, tune and test speaker-independent recognition sets and speech prompts for customer projects.
- Recruit and record internal participants for tuning and testing of speech recognition sets for customer and internal projects
- Recruit participants for QA testing of tuned recognition sets for customer and internal projects.
- Review recognition vocabulary lexical properties and menu structure for optimal customer product performance.
- Interact with customers to provide guidance on dialogue design and recognition set makeup for optimal speech recognition success rate
- Work with Sensory engineers to deliver project vocabularies, translations, speech prompts, etc on schedule.
- Assist with QA testing of Sensory's QT2SI (Quick Text-to-Speaker-Independent) recognition set building tool and other Linguistics tools and provide feedback and bug reports to Engineering.
- Responsible for sourcing TTS voice talents auditions, assist in selection of voices
Requirements and Preferences
- B.A./B.S. in Linguistics required; M.A in Linguistics preferred
- 1-5 years total job experience with demonstrated focus in linguistics required
- Excellent understanding of phonological and phonetic concepts required
- Ability to interpret spectrograms and transcribe in IPA required
- Computer literate (Windows, DOS) and experience with Microsoft applications required
- Experience using tools such as Audition, Peak, Sound Forge, or Praat preferred
- Knowledge of WorldBet or SAMPA preferred
- Fluency in at least one foreign language preferred
Position Title: Senior Software Development Engineer
Job Code: 12-03
Qualifications
The ideal candidate combines a high level of creativity and analytic ability, with get-it-done practicality and
excellent work quality. The ideal candidate will have a history of team leadership in some form, but is primarily
focused on hands-on development.
Primary Duties/Responsibilities
Software Programming
- Implements speech recognition, synthesis, and voice processing algorithms and related software on hardware platforms, including Sensory chips.
- Evaluates hardware platforms for feasibility of implementing Sensory technologies.
- "Ports" existing technology software to various platforms including DSPs.
- Develops and maintains in-house and customer tools to support the application of Sensory technologies.
- Defines and implements simulations and scripts for validating, evaluating, and improving the performance of Sensory technologies.
Technology Algorithms
- Learns and understands existing proprietary voice algorithms in depth.
- Collaborates with the theoretical algorithms development group in the development and improvement of speech recognition, synthesis, and voice processing algorithms.
Requirements
- MS in EE or CS.
- Five years programming experience in product development.
- Proficiency in assembly language and embedded "C", demonstrated by a past primary programming role in one or more fully-released products.
- Proven ability to work creatively in small teams and solo; equally adept at high-level algorithmic software design and low-level code optimization.
- Ability to develop software from existing code, detailed specification, or general conceptual outline.
- Experience with inter-process communications, message passing/queuing.
- Good oral and written communication skills, ability to exchange and debate complex technical concepts face-to-face or remotely.
- Familiarity with embedded systems hardware, ADCs, DACs, ability to read schematics.
- U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
Preferences
- Good management ability or potential as demonstrated in team leadership
- Ten years programming experience in product development
- In-depth knowledge of multiple hardware platforms, especially DSPs.
- Broad and deep experience in signal processing for speech.
- Experience developing for CSR BlueCore chips.
- Solid knowledge of analytic techniques, statistics, mathematical modeling.
- Experience with Perl, Tcl/TK, or similar scripting languages.
- Experience with CVS or other revision control system.
Position Title: Product Marketing Manager
Job Code: 12-04
Qualifications
This position requires a smart, energetic, technical, self-directing, creative, hard working, very well organized, and flexible individual. We offer an exciting opportunity at a growing technology company targeting consumer product and telephony manufacturers with a line of cutting edge speech chips and technologies. We are the leader in a growing market for voice user interfaces in consumer electronics. An ideal candidate will combine a strong technical background along with experience in product marketing of wireless, consumer or microcontroller IC’s. Must be comfortable with broad set of duties/responsibilities.
Primary Duties/Responsibilities
- Product Planning & Management - Manage Sensory product releases (IC’s, Software, and Tools) and help drive the development of new products, features, and technologies.
- Documentation and Collateral - Responsible for look, feel, accuracy, standardization, and control of all Sensory documents going out to customers. Manage contract technical editors.
- Market/Customer Research - Collect customer information and feedback, analyze data, and conduct research to better understand and explore new market opportunities.
- Sales Tools - Create and maintain tools to help sales efforts (lit, demo’s, mktg. programs, etc.)
Internet/Web Marketing - Attract customers through the Internet
- Concept Marketing - Invent new applications for Sensory’s technology, and sell the concepts.
MARCOM & Rep Marketing - Insure press coverage in target markets, assist in tradeshows, lead communications with international rep network.
- Strategic Planning - Assist the management team in charting Sensory's business, market, and product stategies.
Requirements and Preferences
- 2 years experience as a Marketing Manager, preferably with consumer IC’s or telecom ICs.
- Strong technical and market knowledge of as many of the following markets as possible: wireless handsets, PDA’s, toys, hands free speakerphones, VOIP and SOHO phones, consumer electronics and home appliances.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- BSEE and/or MBA. Top School Preferred.
Position Title: Senior Research Technologist - Position A
Job Code: 12-06
Qualifications
- Strong background in large-vocabulary continuous-speech recognition
- Experience in porting algorithms to embedded processor and mobile platforms
- Ability to develop and implement new or derived algorithms within the limitations of low-power and embedded platforms
- Ability to prosper and work collaboratively with an innovative technology development team
Primary Duties/Responsibilities
- Driving research and development of robust parsing in Sensory's large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system
- Contributing to research and development of language modeling components of Sensory's technology
- Contributing to research and development of grammar-directed search and information retrieval components of Sensory's technology
- Porting and supporting porting of applicable technologies to embedded platforms, including different processors,
memory subsystems, operating systems (or lack thereof) and audio channels
- Quoting projects to develop new technologies or port existing technologies
Requirements and Preferences
- Ph.D. with a focus on speech recognition or related field preferred; master's degree required
- Demonstrated ability to lead technology evolution with disciplined processes shown by papers and past accomplishments required.
- Demonstrated ability in speech recognition systems required.
- Fundamental understanding of computer architecture required.
- Strong knowledge of C required.
- Strong knowledge of Tcl and/or other scripting language preferred.
- 3 or more years of experience in the speech recognition industry preferred.
Position Title: Senior Research Technologist - Position B
Job Code: 12-07
Qualifications
- Strong background in large-vocabulary continuous-speech recognition
- Experience in porting algorithms to embedded processor and mobile platforms
- Ability to develop and implement new or derived algorithms within the limitations of low-power and embedded platforms
- Ability to prosper and work collaboratively with an innovative technology development team
Primary Duties/Responsibilities
- Driving research and development of noise-robust front end of Sensory's speech recognition systems
- Developing state-of-the-art, novel algorithms for noise-robust and minimal-footprint speech recognition systems
- Porting and supporting porting of applicable technologies to embedded platforms, including different processors,
memory subsystems, operating systems (or lack thereof) and audio channels
- Quoting projects to develop new technologies or port existing technologies
Requirements and Preferences
- Ph.D. with a focus on speech recognition or related field preferred; master's degree required
- Demonstrated ability to lead technology evolution with disciplined processes shown by papers and past accomplishments required.
- Demonstrated ability in speech recognition systems required.
- Fundamental understanding of computer architecture required.
- Strong knowledge of C required.
- Strong knowledge of Tcl and/or other scripting language preferred.
- 3 or more years of experience in the speech recognition industry preferred.
Position Title: Senior Research Technologist - Position C
Job Code: 12-08
Qualifications
- Strong background in large-vocabulary continuous-speech recognition
- Experience in porting algorithms to embedded processor and mobile platforms
- Ability to develop and implement new or derived algorithms within the limitations of low-power and embedded platforms
- Ability to prosper and work collaboratively with an innovative technology development team
Primary Duties/Responsibilities
- Driving research and development to improve quality of acoustic modeling within
limitations of wide-ranging systems, from very small to very large footprints
- Porting and supporting porting of applicable technologies to embedded platforms, including different processors,
memory subsystems, operating systems (or lack thereof) and audio channels
- Quoting projects to develop new technologies or port existing technologies
Requirements and Preferences
- Ph.D. with a focus on speech recognition or related field preferred; master's degree required
- Demonstrated ability to lead technology evolution with disciplined processes shown by papers and past accomplishments required.
- Demonstrated ability in speech recognition systems required.
- Fundamental understanding of computer architecture required.
- Strong knowledge of C required.
- Strong knowledge of Tcl and/or other scripting language preferred.
- 3 or more years of experience in the speech recognition industry preferred.
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