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Senior Researcher – Speech to Text | Bengaluru

January 16, 2026

What you’ll do

  • Lead research on ASR models focused on accuracy, latency, and robustness
  • Design and train speech-to-text models for noisy, accented, and low-resource settings
  • Improve streaming and real-time decoding pipelines
  • Experiment with architectures, loss functions, and data strategies (augmentation, semi-supervised learning, distillation)
  • Translate research ideas into production-ready systems
  • Collaborate closely with infra, product, and voice engineering teams

What we’re looking for

  • Strong background in ASR / speech research
  • Hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch preferred)
  • Experience with streaming or low-latency ASR systems
  • Familiarity with modern ASR architectures (CTC, Transducers, attention-based, hybrid)
  • Ability to think end-to-end: data → model → deployment
  • Prior work in multilingual or accented speech is a strong plus

Great to have

  • Publications in top speech / ML conferences
  • Experience deploying models in real-time production systems
  • Exposure to conversational AI

Years of Experience

  • 3-6 years of specialized experience in speech through academia or industry

Education

  • Masters or PhD in Speech

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Work Level
Developer
Employment Type
On-Site
Salary
Estimated Base $60K – $100K • $50K – $80K Equity
Valid Until
May 21, 2026
States
Karnataka
Region
Bengaluru
Country
India
Street Address
Bengaluru,Karnataka,India
Salary Currency
United States Dollar ( $ USD )
Salary
Estimated Base $60K – $100K • $50K – $80K Equity
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