Senior System Software Engineer, Speech AI

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NVIDIA is looking for a Senior System Software Engineer with deep expertise in speech technologies to support enterprise and developer customers. This role involves hands-on technical engagement with customers to implement, troubleshoot, and optimize Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Text-to-Speech (TTS), Audio Language Models (ALM), and Speech-to-Speech (S2S) systems in production environments. If you're creative & passionate about solving real world conversational AI problems, come join our Speech AI Engineering team.

What you’ll be doing:

• Work on cutting-edge GPU-accelerated AI systems deployed at scale

• Tackle challenging problems in real-time streaming audio processing and low-latency inference

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across ASR, TTS, ALM, and S2S pipelines

• Model Integration: Work alongside Model researchers to transition ASR, TTS and S2S models from research to production readiness.

• Develop Core Speech Services: Build and enhance C++ & python backend implementations for ASR, TTS, and S2S  pipelines, leveraging CUDA for GPU acceleration                                   

• Optimize Inference Performance: Improve streaming latency and throughput through advanced batching strategies, encoder caching, and multi-threaded pipeline optimizations

• Feature Development: Add new capabilities such as advanced voice activity detection, speaker diarization, decoder implementations (CTC, WFST, Flashlight), and text post-processing

• Client Libraries: Contribute to Python and C++ client SDKs and CLI tools for easy service integration 

• Assist with API integration, SDK usage, model deployment, and performance optimization

• Provide advanced technical guidance to customers implementing speech technology solutions

What we need to see:

• Masters or BE/BTech in Computer Science, computer architecture, or related field

• 5+ years of experience

• Excellent C++ & Python programming and software design skills, including debugging, performance analysis, and test design.

• Experience with inference pipelines for LLM, Speech Recognition & Speech Synthesis

• Solid understanding of modern model architectures (Transformers, CNNs, RNNs)

• Excellent debugging abilities spanning multiple software (storage systems, kernels and containers)

• Experience building and deploying cloud services using HTTP REST, gRPC, Websockets and related technologies

• Strong collaborative and interpersonal skills, specifically a proven ability to effectively guide and influence within a dynamic matrix environment

• Ability to work independently, define project goals and scope and manage your own development effort.

• Knowledge of real-time streaming audio systems and low-latency architectures

• Experience with speech model fine-tuning or customization

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Publications or contributions to ML optimization open-source projects.

• Experience with embedded systems or edge deployment    

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