Senior Speech Scientist

About the Tech Team

Technology powers everything we do at Dialectica – from communicating with clients and finding the most relevant expert profiles in just a few minutes to indexing and categorizing thousands of pieces of information every day. To do so, we are building our own proprietary web application that automates and optimizes the delivery of our market leading services.

About the role

Our Technology team designs and engineers complex proprietary software that automates and optimizes the delivery of our market leading services. 

Using Agile methodologies, our Data Scientists work tightly integrated with engineering, data,

product and business analysis professionals to develop robust, scalable data science models, tools and insights.

Our team leverages the power of analytics and data-driven insights to drive smart investment and well-informed business decisions.

As a Speech Scientist, you will work on state-of-the-art language and speech technologies for task-oriented dialogue systems.

Indicative responsibilities include:

• ‌Development, evaluation and tuning of ML models/pipelines that drive business impact
• Use mathematics, statistics, modeling, business analysis and technology to transform high volumes of complex data into advanced analytic solutions

• ‌Lead the data analysis effort to navigate a diverse set of datasets, organize and wrangle large datasets to get actionable insights 
• ‌Deploy, operationalize and maintain data science solutions
• ‌Partner with stakeholders across leadership to improve business outcomes
• Own and drive projects independently

If you are interested in working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, software engineering and advanced business analytics and if you have the skills and drive to create and improve novel algorithms, models and, ultimately, technology products that our clients love, then we would love to hear from you.

Requirements

The ideal candidate would possess:

• MSc / PhD in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science or a relevant scientific field
• 4+ years of post-academic data science experience; advanced Python and/or R skills
• Ability to contribute and lead projects independently while being involved in conversations with relevant business stakeholders
• Strong skills working with algorithms, computational complexity, statistics and ML/AI techniques
• Expertise in Speech Technologies such as speech processing/recognition/synthesis, voice activity detection, speaker diarization
• Proven experience with projects on Natural Language Processing and Transformer models 
• Experience with dialogue systems including dialogue management, intent classification, and entity extraction.
• Experience with tools/frameworks and libraries like Huggingface, PyTorch, Kaldi, SpeechBrain, Rasa or Dialogflow.
• Hands-on experience with Large Language Models and transfer learning
• Understanding of and experience on using advanced analytics concepts (e.g., natural language processing, linear programming etc.)
• Passionate and talented in quickly assimilating business, technology and science ideas

Our Values:

• Ownership
• Growth Mindset
• Teamwork
• Respect

Fluency in English is a must

Benefits

• Competitive base salary with additional performance incentives

• Coverage under the company’s collective health insurance plan
• Learning and development opportunities (e.g. onboarding, Mini-MBA, on-the-job training, Udemy courses and many others!)
• Hybrid work model & extra personal/flex days and paid volunteer days a year for your favorite cause
• Company sponsored team-bonding events
• Weekly health & wellness activities (e.g. basketball, football, yoga, running), gym discounts, healthy breakfast, snacks and beverages
• Entrepreneurial culture and amazing coworkers!

About Dialectica

Dialectica is the global leader in insights on-demand. We enable investment and business professionals to access untapped market, competitive & customer insights powered by the world’s hardest to find experts, and cutting-edge technology. Our team of +1,000 professionals in 5 offices spanning 3 continents, works with top-tier investment funds, management consulting firms, and Fortune 500 companies around the globe.

Driven by our mission to achieve unparalleled customer recognition, we are developing the most trusted and innovative knowledge-sharing platform in the world. Dialectica has been recognized as one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies by the Financial Times for 4 years in a row, a Top Employer for Recent Graduates by The Career Directory in Canada and a Best Workplace.