Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Paris - France

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 12 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team youll collaborate with people of all styles skill sets and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives.

This role is a hybrid position

This position is considered hybrid allowing for a combination of remote work and in-office collaboration. Qualified applicants must live within commuting distance of our Paris office location and should expect to be in office approximately 3 days per week.

In the Sonos Voice Control team we design the future of AI based interactions to power music control and content discovery for Sonos customers on any control surfaces (Sonos hardware Sonos Application Sonos Voice Control).

We are seeking an experienced ML engineer to join the Audio Machine Learning team focused on building the next generation of Sonos Voice Control. The team develops all audio-based components of Sonos in-house voice assistant solution including far-field automatic speech recognition (ASR) wakeword detection and speech enhancement. The team is also in charge of shipping those models to production and running them efficiently and fast on multiple types of hardware. The current role has a strong focus on the optimization and shipping machine learning inference but also contributes to the other stages of the model development lifecycle.

What Youll Do

Work in the Audio Machine Learning team of Sonos Voice Control together with a group of experienced machine learning engineers and researchers
Bring our state-of-the-art machine learning models to production by maintaining and implementing libraries for on-device and cloud inference
Ensure our models run efficiently and fast on various types of hardware by applying optimization on low-level operations of the inference code
Benchmark models during development to allow the team to make informed decisions on model architectures and new approaches
Collaborate with the cloud backend and embedded engineering teams to ensure our models perform the best they can in the different environments

What Youll Need

Basic Qualifications

4 years experience in software engineering particularly writing and maintaining efficient production-ready codebases unit/integration testing deploying to production systems
Advanced knowledge of at least one high-performance compiled language (e.g. Rust C C)
1-2 years experience working on machine learning

Intermediate knowledge of Python and latest ML libraries (e.g. PyTorch)
A Masters degree in computer science or a related technical field (or equivalent experience)

Preferred Skills

Experience in model inference for real-time production-grade ML systems
Experience with low-level optimization on CPU and GPU (Cuda SIMD etc.)
Experience with audio processing (e.g. ASR speech enhancement audio classification) and latest trends in streaming ASR (transducer architectures)

Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often dont apply for roles if they dont meet all the criteria. If you dont have 100% of the skills listed we strongly encourage you to apply if interested.

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