Senior Scientist, Foundation models for speech

About Translated

Translated is on a mission to allow everyone to understand and be understood, in their own language. We are a technology-powered professional translation provider. We partner with over professional translators worldwide, in 200 languages. Our clients range from the private person who needs their CV translated to the very big, like Uber and Airbnb. 

The ideal candidate should have a strong enthusiasm for contributing to the design and implementation of Large-scale Language Models for speech-related tasks. Additionally, they should be capable of coordinating technical, communication, and team activities for our Meetween project.

The project: Meetween

Translated has just been awarded a grant on Meetween, a 7M€, 4-year collaborative research project started in January 2024, which Translated leads. Meetween uses LLMs and multimodal foundation models to enhance human communication. 

The project is related to the following research areas: Deep Learning, Large Language and Multimodal models, Machine Translation, Automatic Speech Recognition and Translation, Summarization, AI Digital Assistants. The project offers the opportunity to collaborate with leading speech processing teams from both academia and industry.

With Meetween, we want to "solve speech": we will build foundation models to model all 3 modalities of speech (text, audio, video including lip movement, facial expression and gestures) in a single architecture. Thanks to transfer learning and conditioning, this is used to implement many speech-related downstream tasks: ASR, zero-shot TTS and voice cloning, speech-to-speech translation, lip reading and lip resync, audio/video mutual reconstruction/enhancement.

We have secured an ambitious computing budget on the Polish HPC infrastructure with hundreds of thousands of A100-hours, in addition to our in-house compute infrastructure of several hundreds of GPUs. 

For maximum impact, all research outcomes of Meetween, such as trained models, datasets, evaluation benchmarks, will be open-sourced on HuggingFace.

You will be part of a team of researchers dedicated to Meetween within Translated's AI Research team, which works on several pieces of technology such as Large Language Models, Machine Translation, Speech Synthesis, privacy-preserving Machine Learning. The AI Research team collaborates closely with product and engineering teams and develops the technology to power Translated's next generation of products.

Responsibilities

work with data, compute and algorithmsdesign of deep learning multimodal neural architecturesdesign experiments, implement them in code, run them on large (GPU on HPC) compute, run evaluationsmonitor and benchmark the state of the arthave the opportunity to give guidance to more junior team members such as PhD students and internscoordinate with our partners on our research roadmapadapt the project's pace to the rapid scientific development in our fieldorganize publications and open-sourcing efforts

Requirements

completed PhD or 4 years of industry research experience in a relevant field of deep learning, typically language modeling or speech recognitionexcellent programming skills: Pytorchfamiliarity with Docker and Unix OS, including running GPU experimentsinterest in carrying out experimental researchrelevant scientific publications, teaching and research experienceexperience in the industry of speech and language technologyexperience in coordinating a team of researchersexcellent use of English

Bonus points if...

you're strong in multi-GPU training, GPU training optimizationyou're a polyglotyou have open-source contributionsyou have published at tier-1 ML/AI conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICML, ICASSP, Interspeech, ACL, EMNLP

Headquarter

Translated is hosted at Pi Campus, a working environment immersed in nature where 6 luxury villas in Rome (Italy) have been converted into functional offices to foster talent growth. Pi Campus is also a venture firm created by Translated to reinvest part of its profits into promising AI startups.

Benefits and Perks

At Translated, we see our people as athletes, and Pi Campus as the place where they can reach their full potential. This vibrant environment fosters talent aggregation and continuous growth of mind, body, and spirit. 

We nurture and support the team's personal and professional development every day through growth-oriented initiatives like personalized learning paths and networking events with industry leaders, health-oriented initiatives like massages, sauna, and workouts in our gym and swimming pool, as well as relaxation rooms, open meeting rooms, a cafeteria, and fully equipped kitchens in every villa. In case of need, every team member has access to psychological, legal, and financial support.

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Diversity Statement

At Translated, we proudly embrace and celebrate each individual's unique qualities to our team, regardless of race, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other differences. We recognize that these diverse perspectives empower us to overcome challenges, foster innovation, and drive excellence. As an inclusive and equal-opportunity employer, we are committed to cultivating an environment where everyone feels welcome, valued, and supported to achieve their full potential.

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