Automatic Speech Recognition Engineer

The ASR Engineer joins Omilia's Delivery ASR team to own the development, tuning, testing, deployment, and live performance of Omilia's ASR technology for enterprise customers' production IVR and voice-channel deployments. This role carries substantial responsibility and ownership: the ASR Engineer leads ASR solutions end-to-end, coordinating with other teams as needed, and is trusted to make sound judgment calls and manage their own work to meet tight deadlines.

Accountabilities
- Own end-to-end ASR tuning, model, and grammar delivery for a portfolio of live enterprise IVR/voice deployments, from requirements through go-live and ongoing optimization.
- Own root-cause investigation and resolution of production ASR issues, ensuring rapid recovery of customer-facing voice channels under time pressure.
- Own the technical relationship for assigned enterprise accounts, acting as the primary ASR delivery point of contact with customer and partner stakeholders.
- Drive measurable WER/SER improvements against production baselines through acoustic and language model design and fine-tuning, including modern neural approaches.
- Contribute to and help scale delivery automation to reduce manual turnaround across the team's release cadence.
- Ensure ASR solutions perform reliably across the team's production infrastructure and deployment environments spanning multiple global regions.

Key Responsibilities
- Tune ASR grammars, acoustic models, and language models for new locales, domains, and customer-specific vocabularies.
- Design, train, and fine-tune acoustic and language models, including modern neural approaches, with measurable WER/SER improvement.
- Investigate and resolve production ASR issues such as recognition failures and showstopper defects, engaging directly with internal and external customer/partner stakeholders.
- Run customer working sessions and translate technical tradeoffs for non-technical stakeholders.
- Represent ASR delivery in cross-functional forums with Product, Support, and Project Management.
- Build and maintain grammar-generation and other delivery automation pipelines to speed up release cycles.
- Monitor live ASR performance and proactively flag and address degradation before it affects customers.
- Deploy and validate ASR updates across production infrastructure spanning multiple global regions.
- Document tuning decisions, model versions, and configuration changes for auditability and knowledge sharing.