Two R&D engineer positions on voice processing in audiovisual contents at Inria Nancy

Our team at Inria Nancy is recruiting two R&D engineers for an ambitious industrial project on voice processing in audiovisual contents. The mission is to develop, evaluate, and improve software prototypes based on the latest scientific advances and transfer them to the partner software development company and the sound creation studio which initiated the project. The resulting commercial software will be a reference in the professional audiovisual field.
*R&D engineer A*
Start date: May 2017
Duration: 18 months
Missions:
- speaker recognition based on ALIZE
- speech enhancement by multichannel deep learning
Profile:
- MSc or PhD in computer science, signal processing, or machine learning
- operational skills in software engineering (version control, tests, software quality) and Python 3 language (numpy, scipy, Keras)
- experience in speaker recognition or speech enhancement would be a plus
Salary: 2048 to 2509? net/month depending on experience
*R&D engineer B*
Start date: May-June 2017
Duration: 16 months
Missions:
- speech recognition based on Kaldi
- concatenative speech synthesis
Profile:
- MSc or PhD in computer science, signal processing, or machine learning
- operational skills in software engineering (version control, tests, software quality) and Python 3 (numpy, scipy, Keras) and Java (Java SE 8) languages
- experience in speech recognition or synthesis would be a plus
Salary: 2048 to 2509? net/month depending on experience
*Work environment*
Nancy is one of the top cities for young engineers in France with cheap accomodation, a vibrant cultural scene, and good connections to Paris (1.5h), Luxemburg (1.5h), Belgium, and Germany. Inria Nancy is a 500-people research institute dedicated to computer science. The Multispeech team (https://team.inria.fr/multispeech/) is a 30-people group covering various fields of speech science, with a strong emphasis on machine learning and signal processing.
*To apply*
Send a CV, a motivation letter and 1 to 3 optional recommendation letters to emmanuel.vincent-AT-inria.fr. Mention which position(s) you are applying for. Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis until March 17. Please apply as soon as possible before that date.