Speech ML Engineer

You will join Almawave's Cognitive & AI Research and Development Labs, within the Technology & Innovation Division, in a highly stimulating and multidisciplinary environment focused on researching and developing innovative AI-powered products.

As a Speech ML Engineer, you will contribute to the design, development and evolution of Speech AI and Multimodal Large Language Models, combining cutting-edge research with practical applications in real-world production environments.

You will primarily work on Audioma, Almawave's proprietary batch and real-time speech transcription system, as well as on Speech and Multimodal LLM technologies, contributing to the evolution of the Velvet model family.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Contribute to the design and development of Speech and Multimodal LLMs, analyzing and experimenting with state-of-the-art architectures and methodologies.
• Work on data curation and data preparation activities to build large-scale datasets supporting a broad range of speech and multimodal tasks.
• Participate in model pre-training, fine-tuning and post-training activities, experimenting with innovative techniques and approaches.
• Design and develop evaluation pipelines to assess the performance of trained models, defining metrics and benchmarking methodologies.
• Contribute to the engineering and optimization of Speech LLM and Audioma serving systems, focusing on performance, latency, scalability and computational efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, particularly NLP and Computer Vision, and business stakeholders, contributing to the definition of the technical roadmap and ensuring alignment with business objectives.