Become a Researcher on Language Technologies for Multilingual Speech Processing at FBK

Do you want to become a researcher who will help us investigate, develop and deploy novel solutions for multilingual speech recognition and spoken language understanding, leveraging pre-trained foundation models (also multimodal) as well as large language models on two projects European projects – ELOQUENCE and MEETWEN?

Job Overview: 

Location: Trento, Povo (Italy)
Salary: about € 36.200 – € 41.400 depending on background and expertise in the field
Hours: Full-Time
Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract

Your responsibilities

will cover a wide range of tasks, including (but not limited to):

  • Working with low resourced settings, typical of many European languages, which requires efficient training or fine-tuning in terms of data;
  • Compliance with European values and regulations in terms of bias, ethics and privacy.
  • Expected to advance the state-of-the-art in the field, disseminate the results to top international conferences and journals of the speech processing and artificial intelligence communities.

Skills and qualifications

  • Master’s degree in data science, computer science, engineering or related fields (the degree must be obtained by the start date of the FBK contract);
  • Fluent in Python and in the ML packages and modules (pytorch, tensorflow);
  • Experience in AI solutions for speech recognition and speech processing;
  • Excellent publication record in relevant international conferences and journals;
  • Good communication and relational skills;
  • Self-motivation and result orientation;
  • Oral and written proficiency in English.

If you are interested in the position, please contact jobs@fbk.eu.

The deadline for applications is 24/10.

Complete details about this role are available at: https://jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offerte_di_lavoro_A_Researcher_on_language_technologies_for_multilingual_speech_processing_232823563.htm