About the role

  • ML Research Engineer focusing on speech modeling for BCI applications at Echo Neurotechnologies. Working on cutting-edge projects to restore autonomy to individuals with disabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Design and assess varying model architectures and modeling strategies to maximize the accuracy and robustness of models for decoding speech from brain activity
  • Explore the use of state-of-the-art speech features and representations within neural-decoding pipelines, informed by the fields of speech science and functional neurophysiology
  • Develop pipelines for synthesizing personalizable and naturalistic speech from text and from brain activity
  • Build algorithms to analyze intact and impaired speech signals to detect biomarkers related to underlying diseases and disabilities
  • Work collaboratively within a small team to develop models, design R&D workflows, and translate scientific findings into product implementations
  • Contribute to best practices for reliability, observability, reproducibility, and scientific rigor across the R&D ecosystem
  • Maintain versioned, clear, and highly documented code, analysis pipelines, and results for maximum interpretability and reproducibility

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Math, Engineering, Neuroscience, or other relevant field
  • A minimum of 2 years of academic or industry research experience working with speech datasets
  • Experience performing feature engineering with speech signals
  • Proficiency in Python and PyTorch
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively on cross-functional and interdisciplinary teams
  • Experience having technical ownership over at least one successfully implemented collaborative project
  • A PhD in Math, Engineering, Neuroscience, or other relevant field (preferred)
  • Experience developing speech synthesizers (preferred)
  • Experience working with neural signals, especially for brain-computer interface applications (preferred)

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation, including stock options.
  • Comprehensive benefits package.
  • 401(k) program with matching contributions.

Job title

ML Research Engineer, Speech

Job type

Experience level

JuniorMid level

Salary

$185,000 - $235,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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