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Job Location (Full Address):
160 Trustee Rd, Rochester, New York, United States of America, 14627
Opening:
Worker Subtype:
Temporary
Time Type:
Part time
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
20
Department:
220980 Electrical Engineering Engg
Work Shift:
UR - Day (United States of America)
Range:
UR URG 104 H
Compensation Range:
$19.04 - $26.63
The referenced pay range represents the minimum and maximum compensation for this job. Individual annual salaries/hourly rates will be set within the job's compensation range, and will be determined by considering factors including, but not limited to, market data, education, experience, qualifications, expertise of the individual, and internal equity considerations.
Responsibilities:
Performs advanced highly specialized technical research activities, frequently designing or creating new machine learning algorithms for speech processing. Interprets activities/problems and selects approaches. Plans and conducts experiments, designing or creating new techniques and procedures. Evaluates results and prepares reports.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Designing, training and evaluating a multi-lingual real-time speech foundation model
Applying the trained foundation model for downstream application problems like real-time multi-lingual voice conversion
Communicating experimental results to the supervisor and lab mates on a regular basis
Drafting papers, reports, and presentations of research progress for dissemination
Other duties as assigned.
MINIMUM EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
High School diploma or equivalent and 5 years of relevant experience required
Associate's degree preferred
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, or Applied Math preferred
Research experience with designing and training deep neural networks for speech signals preferred.
Or equivalent combination of education and experience
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Machine learning, signal processing, deep neural networks, Python programming, using GPU clusters, data visualization, data analysis, report drafting, presentation drafting
preferred
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