Merlin Labs is hiring a
Software Engineer

Summary

Join our diverse team of innovators at Merlin Labs as we develop software to control sophisticated transportation systems. We're seeking a software engineer specializing in automatic speech recognition (ASR) to create end-to-end ASR systems for aviation domains.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science, Robotics, Natural Language Processing, or a related subject
• 7+ years experience in designing and developing automatic speech recognition systems
• Fluency in python and either PyTorch or Tensorflow
• Experience with linux, open source development tools, software development process and version control tools such as git and weights and biases
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment and communicate technical concepts clearly

Responsibilities

• Lead ASR research, design, and development
• Design and implement ASR systems for aviation applications such as air traffic control communication
• Develop algorithms and models to improve speech recognition accuracy and reliability in noisy and challenging environments
• Research and stay up to date with the latest advancements in ASR technology
• Work with the larger NLP team to integrate the ASR system with downstream components
• Work with project teams to understand requirements and concepts of operation (conops) for the ASR system
• Generally contribute to the natural language processing team by following our software and model development process and writing software to integrate work into the larger system
• Learn the aviation domain in which the ASR system will function

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Hugging Face and model tracking tools such as weights and biases or tensorboard
• Experience deploying models in production environments
• Knowledge in the aviation space

Benefits

Top-notch benefits package (health, dental, life, unlimited vacation, and 401k with match)