Speech Recognition Lead
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Lead speech recognition for Brilliant, developing and optimizing a local wake-word and event-detection engine for smart-home devices.
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Speech Recognition Lead
We are looking for experienced and passionate professionals to help us take Brilliant to the next level. Brilliant is headquartered in San Mateo, CA, and offers competitive salary/stock options, a health plan, and more. If you love the smart home industry, have proven experience in shipping great products, and enjoy working in a high integrity environment, we would love to speak with you!
Develop and implement wake word detectors, optimizing a local speech recognition engine, and creating an event detector to listen for key sounds such as glass cracking. Preferred candidate has detailed, hands-on knowledge of modern ASR techniques, experience building speech engines for computationally constrained local environments without any server support, experience building models for domain specific ASR, the ability to write shippable, production grade software, knowledge of OpenCL or other GPU compatible parallel computing frameworks.
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