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 200 000 professional translators worldwide in 200 languages. Our 310 000 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 Translateds 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 Translateds next generation of products.

Responsibilities

• work with data compute and algorithms
• design of deep learning multimodal neural architectures
• design experiments implement them in code run them on large (GPU on HPC) compute run evaluations
• monitor and benchmark the state of the art
• have the opportunity to give guidance to more junior team members such as PhD students and interns
• coordinate with our partners on our research roadmap
• adapt the projects pace to the rapid scientific development in our field
• organize 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 recognition
• excellent programming skills: Pytorch
• familiarity with Docker and Unix OS including running GPU experiments
• interest in carrying out experimental research
• relevant scientific publications teaching and research experience
• experience in the industry of speech and language technology
• experience in coordinating a team of researchers
• excellent use of English

Bonus points if...

• youre strong in multi-GPU training GPU training optimization
• youre a polyglot
• you have open-source contributions
• you 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 teams 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 case of need every team member has access to psychological legal and financial support.

Learn more about our company: Statement

At Translated we proudly embrace and celebrate each individuals 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.