Applied Scientist 4 Jobs

OCI Speech team creates innovative products that leverage the power of AI and Machine
Learning to bring world-class speech capabilities to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle’s
Digital Assistant platform. We are like a start-up inside a large company with a big charter
and a lot of creative freedom. We have assembled some of the smartest people in the
industry and are growing this team.
If you are looking for an exciting new opportunity as a data scientist to help solve difficult
problems, be creative, create success for customers, and engage with the product team to do
some innovative research and development, please review our profile.

Leading contributor providing guidance and mentorship to define, design and deliver product quality improvements from ideation stage to shipping to the customer. Write high quality code to power experiments and build models. Contributes to writing production model code. Work closely with product management and engineering to deliver products which solves the needs of our customers by building relevant, innovative results which strategically differentiates Oracle in the market. Set up environment needed to run experiments for all projects. Set up distributed environments. Engage with customers and help solve complex problems with the customer/partner. Directly impact our customers via innovation in products and services that make use of ML/AI technology. Clearly articulate technical work to audiences of all levels and across multiple functional areas. Keep track of the progress and ensure the team is following the best practices. Works on training data collection, feature engineering, model training, offline and online experimentation. Drives independent research and development. Advance the state-of-the-art machine learning and algorithms for real-world large-scale applications. Ensure solutions are designed with fairness and explainability in mind. May perform other duties as assigned.

• Is eager to work on a highly sellable, performance-optimized infrastructure which elastically handles customer needs
• Works in a detail-oriented manner, with a focus on quality of the product, data, and code
• Has 5+ years of professional development
• Is able to adapt to a fast-paced work environment and can quickly adjust to changing priorities
• Is experienced with Machine Learning and Deep Learning models and frameworks
• Is fluent in spoken/read/written English. An exposure to medical/health use cases is a plus. A Ph.D. degree in computer science on natural language processing or speech processing is preferred but not a must. A strong publication record is a plus.
• Possesses excellent communication skills with an ability to explain and write specifications that embody complex concepts to stakeholders within the team
• May be involved in planning and budgeting product roadmap
• Has strong background on speech processing (speech recognition, speaker verification/identification, keyword spotting, diarization) and/or neural language modeling and/or big data management and curation
• Has strong programming skills in Python, C++, Java (GPU programming is a plus)
• Is able to experiment and evaluate state of the art systems from both academia and industry