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The role will provide an opportunity to work on large scale machine learning to improve the podcast creation experience at Zencastr.\nYou’ll join a team of hardworking engineers that are passionate about understanding what drives users’ long-term happiness with Zencastr, and how our recommendations and content affects that. As an integral part of the squad, you will collaborate with research scientists, data scientists and other engineers in prototyping and productizing brand-new ML at the intersection of speech processing and long-term user satisfaction.\nWhat You'll Do..\nDesign, research and develop state-of-the-art machine learning applications and algorithms to improve the lives of podcasters and podcast listeners around the world\n\nCollaborate with engineering partners and colleagues in large multi-functional efforts to build new product features that advise and enrich Zencastr’s various ML services.\n\nDrive forward audio and text capabilities within the ML team\n\nWork with some of the brightest minds in signal processing\n\nIf This Describes You..\nA postgraduate degree in Machine Learning, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field\n\n5 + years experience in Python\n\n3+ years experience in machine learning research, with a focus on speech\n\n3+ years experience training or deploying neural networks\n\nSignificant experience with machine learning libraries like PyTorch, Tensorflow, Scikit-Learn\n\nExperience with building and operating production-ready ML systems\n\nAbility to lead design and implementation of major software components, systems, and features\n\nYou enjoy quickly building model prototypes\n\nExperience with cloud technologies (Google Cloud, AWS, Modal)\n\nYou are a self-starter who drives your own projects and builds positive relationships with partners and colleagues to solve big multi-functional efforts from start to finish. 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