Senior Speech Scientist

Position : Senior Speech ScientistLocation : HyderabadType : Full-TimeCTC : CompetitiveAbout YALYAL.ai (Your Alternative Life) is a revolutionary end-to-end communication and discovery platform reimagining how people connect, interact, and collaborate.We combine state-of-the-art AI with a Zero Trust Architecture, ensuring every interaction is private, secure, and intelligent. From on-device ASR models and multilingual speech-to-speech AI to fraud detection and real-time discovery systems, YAL.ai is building the future of secure communication.With our vision “Where AI Meets Integrity”. We’re crafting an ecosystem where users experience privacy-first communication, intelligent discovery, and cutting-edge AI innovation at scale.About the RoleWe are looking for a Senior Speech Scientist to design, build, and improve speech and language models that enhance our product experiences. You will work on challenging problems across the speech processing stack, collaborate with a talented team, and deliver measurable impact through rigorous research and engineering.Responsibilities- Research, develop, and optimize models for speech translation, automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), voice activity detection, speaker identification, speech enhancement or related areas - Design and run experiments, analyze results, and iterate quickly to improve system performance - Build robust data pipelines for training, evaluation, and deployment of speech models - Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate speech models into production systems with attention to latency, accuracy, and scalability - Stay current with the latest research, evaluate new techniques, and propose adoption where appropriate - Contribute to technical documentation, internal knowledge sharing, and peer code reviews - Participate in the hiring process and mentor junior team membersQualifications- Masters. in Speech Processing, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related field - 4+ years of hands-on experience developing speech or audio ML models in an industry setting - Strong understanding of signal processing fundamentals, acoustic modeling, and language modeling - Proficiency in Python and at least one deep learning framework (PyTorch preferred) - Experience training and fine-tuning large neural network architectures (Transformers, Conformers, RNN-T, etc.) - Solid software engineering skills and comfort working in production codebases - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to experimental rigor - Effective written and verbal communication skillsNice to Have- Publications at top speech or ML conferences - Experience with streaming/real-time speech processing systems - Familiarity with model compression, quantization, and on-device deployment - Experience working with multilingual or low-resource speech data

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