Research Scientist, Speech Technologies

About the Company

Hippocratic AI is the leading generative AI company in healthcare. We have the only system that can have safe, autonomous, clinical conversations with patients. We have trained our own LLMs as part of our Polaris constellation, resulting in a system with over 99.9% accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, evaluate and update data-driven models for Speech First applications
• Participate in research activities including the application and evaluation of speech technologies in the medical domain
• Research and implement 0 to 1 SOTA models for conversational speech recognition

Requirements

• PhD with 3+ years of experience in Speech Recognition or related field, or Masters with 5+ years of hands-on experience with ASR
• Experience designing and developing algorithms for accurate and efficient speech recognition for both Streaming and Non-Streaming use cases
• Experience with training, evaluating, and optimizing ASR models for accuracy, latency, and resource utilization
• Experience with preprocessing and curating large speech datasets
• Strong programming skills in Python and C++
• Comfort working in a Linux/Unix command-line environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building 0 to 1 ASR solutions, including data pipelines and evaluation pipelines
• Hands-on experience with ESPnet, Kaldi, and PyTorch
• Experience with CUDA
• Experience leveraging LLMs for enhanced speech recognition tasks
• Experience with Neural/E2E Endpointer modeling
• Publications in tier 1 journals in the field of speech recognition or NLP