Software Engineer (Speech & Audio)
Company Overview
At Motorola Solutions, we create technologies our customers refer to as their lifeline. Our technology platforms in communications, software, video and services help our customers work safely and more efficiently. Whether it’s helping firefighters see through smoke, enabling police officers to see around street corners, or reliably keeping the lights on in homes and businesses around the world, our work supports those who put their lives on the line to keep us safe. Bring your passion, potential and talents to Motorola Solutions, and help us usher in a new era in public safety and security.
Department OverviewMotorola Solutions’ innovations, products and services play essential roles in people’s lives. Our end-to-end suite of software solutions helps our customers answer thousands of emergency calls and text messages, and process video, disparate evidence and records. We are also proud to be industry leaders in video security solutions installed in more than 120 countries at thousands of customer sites, including school campuses, transportation systems, healthcare centers, public venues, critical infrastructure, prisons, factories, casinos, airports, financial institutions, government facilities, and retailers.
Our products leverage cutting edge voice technology, language models, natural language understanding, video analytics, and machine learning to enable our customers to focus on what matters while providing faster responses, safer outcomes and greater transparency. The candidate will join a talented team of scientists and engineers (located in Chicago, Boston, Vancouver and Krakow, Poland) in the Chief Technology Office at Motorola Solutions working on developing mission-critical AI solutions for our public safety and commercial customers. Our mission is to provide meaningful value to MSI’s customers by developing domain-specific applications and services in the areas of Speech & Audio, Machine Translation, Natural Language Understanding and Computer Vision.
Job Description
We are looking for a passionate and talented software engineer with a particular interest in working on Speech and Language technology. As part of our Speech & Audio team you will work alongside scientists and engineers to implement, deploy and maintain systems that will directly impact users in the public safety and commercial domains in the form of products and services that make use of speech and language technology. This role requires skills in working with both science and engineering tools and environments to train models and realize them in working demonstrations and production.
More specifically this involves:
Implementing and improving our audio pipelines for training, inference and evaluation.
Developing modeling tools, training recipes and prototypes utilizing programming skills in Python.
Conducting experiments to assess the quality of speech recognition and natural language processing models and to study the effectiveness of different modeling techniques.
Analyzing field data in order to identify areas of possible improvement or enhancement of the system.
Presenting and discussing ideas and results within the team and with internal stakeholders (product/project management, engineering etc.).
As part of the team, you will implement and optimize novel machine learning algorithms for sound classification, speech recognition and audio context understanding. Our team is involved in the entire machine learning life cycle – from data collection, model development to inference and deployment, bringing with it unique opportunities to develop new holistic ideas in the domain and deliver a better experience for our customers.
We’re excited about the work we are doing in AI. We often describe it as “Mission Critical AI” because our approach is founded on our many years of Public Safety experience and knowledge. We know the mission-critical needs of our customers are unique and different from the consumer technologies that leverage AI today.
Desired Skills:
Experience (industry or academic) in building speech recognition and natural language processing systems. Knowledge in audio digital signal processing and speech processing.
Be an avid programmer, with extensive expertise in Python or C/C++
Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes would be a strong plus
Practical experience implementing Machine Learning systems (specific experience with deep learning and using Tensorflow and/or PyTorch would be a plus)
Activity in the Open Source community is a strong plus
Required Skills:
Graduate degree (Masters or PhD) in Computer Science, Engineering or a relevant field
Strong scripting and programming skills in Python
Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, complexity analysis, data structures, problem solving and diagnosis
Experience with Unix/Linux and basic knowledge of networking fundamentals
Dependable written and oral communication skills (English)
Basic Requirements
- Graduate degree (Masters or PhD) in Computer Science, Engineering or a relevant field
Strong scripting and programming skills in Python
Travel RequirementsNone
Relocation ProvidedNone
Position TypeExperienced
Referral Payment PlanYes
EEO Statement
Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran's status, or, any other protected characteristic.
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