Careers

Voci™ is committed to becoming the worldwide market leader in speech-to-text solutions by providing our customers leading-edge products and exceptional support and services. Our success in achieving this goal is intricately linked to attracting the right people to join our team. If you share our passion for excellence, have the experience to hit the ground running and thrive on a fast-paced, high energy environment, Voci may provide you a perfect career fit.

The positions we are currently seeking to fill are listed below.

Senior Field Applications Engineer

The Sr. Field Applications Engineer’s primary focus is to ensure our customers’ success with Voci speech recognition products. A successful candidate will be capable of installing the system on the customer’s site, working with the customer to ensure the system integration into their analytics environment meets their expectations, and assisting the customer in becoming proficient and productive in the use of the powerful capabilities of the Voci speech recognition appliance. The Sr. Field Applications Engineer will become the customer advocate, taking on the role of the conduit between the customer and our engineering and marketing teams to ensure that Voci can respond quickly to customer and market input. The highest degree of professionalism and customer commitment combined with technical competence are characteristics we seek. Travel will be required.

Responsibilities

Support sales in evaluating fit of Voci speech recognizer with customer requirements
Work closely with prospects to understand needs and communicate these to the engineering team
Refine and manage processes for managing flow of information between company and customers around technical and support issues
Communicate technical progress to customers and customer issues to the Voci engineering team and management, develop workarounds where possible
Install speech recognition products at customer sites and provide onsite support
Support customer integration efforts
Develop close and collaborative relationship with customer so they see you as their contact point into Voci
Deliver training in the use of the V-Blaze™ API to accelerate customer productivity
Support development of documentation and training material
Work with technical team to support testing and QA efforts

Qualifications

10 years or more of customer support or applications engineering in software and hardware
High energy and committed to the success of the company through making customers successful
Ability to perform the role of conduit between Voci and customer to ensure streamlined bi-directional communication
Strong programming and debugging skills, speech technology experience preferred
Start-up experience helpful as Voci is a fast-paced dynamic environment
Proficient in Linux and Windows OS, and Bash, Python, and C programming
BS in electrical engineering, computer engineering or computer science required; MS in electrical engineering, computer engineering or computer science preferred

Location

Headquarters office: Pittsburgh, PA

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Field Applications Engineer

The Field Applications Engineer’s primary focus is to ensure our customers’ success with Voci speech recognition products. A successful candidate will be capable of installing the system on the customer’s site, working with the customer to ensure the system integration into their analytics environment meets their expectations, and assisting the customer in becoming proficient and productive in the use of the powerful capabilities of the V-Blaze appliance. The Field Applications Engineer will become the customer advocate, taking on the role of the conduit between the customer and our engineering and marketing teams to ensure that Voci can respond quickly to customer and market input. The highest degree of professionalism and customer commitment combined with technical competence are characteristics we seek. Travel will be required.

Responsibilities

Support sales in evaluating fit of Voci speech recognizer with customer requirements
Work closely with prospects to understand needs and communicate these to the engineering team
Communicate technical progress to customers and customer issues to the Voci engineering team and management, develop workarounds where possible
Install speech recognition products at customer sites and provide onsite support
Support customer integration efforts
Develop close and collaborative relationship with customer so they see you as their contact point into Voci
Deliver training in the use of the Voci API to accelerate customer productivity
Support development of documentation and training material
Work with technical team to support testing and QA efforts

Qualifications

5 years or more of customer support or applications engineering in software and hardware
High energy and committed to the success of the company through making customers successful
Ability to perform the role of conduit between Voci and customer to ensure streamlined bi-directional communication
Strong programming and debugging skills, speech technology experience preferred
Start-up experience helpful as Voci is a fast-paced dynamic environment
Proficient in Linux and Windows OS, and Bash, Python, and C programming
BS in electrical engineering, computer engineering or computer science required; MS in electrical engineering, computer engineering or computer science preferred

Location

Headquarters office: Pittsburgh, PA

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Hardware Engineer

As a Voci Hardware Engineer, you will be working under the guidance of Senior Hardware Engineers to implement specific algorithms in C and Verilog, and to design and execute test plans. Experience in writing in Verilog and implementing designs on Xilinx FPGAs is required. A successful candidate must have solid technical skills to design, simulate and debug designs. Experience or the ability to quickly learn new concepts in the fields of speech recognition and language learning is essential. You must also be able to work individually and in teams, and have strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

Analyze algorithms implemented in software and convert them to hardware designs on FPGAs
Design and run tests to validate individual units and complete design
Develop regression methodologies and scripts

Qualifications

BS in electrical engineering or computer engineering, MS preferred
Solid Verilog skill set, Xilinx FPGA experience
Proficient at using Mentor Modelsim, Xilinx ISE, experience with Xilinx EDK a plus
Programming skills with high-level languages (C/C++) and scripting languages (Python, Shell)
Good written and verbal communication skills
Willingness to learn

Location

Headquarters office: Pittsburgh, PA

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Senior Software Engineer

Support, improve and expand our ultra high performance, high density hardware-accelerated speech recognition server. Responsibilities range from interfacing to the hardware, to streamlining the flow of data to developing new client-side features.

Qualifications

BS or MS in computer science or equivalent
6+ years of software development experience
Extensive experience programming in C/C++
Experience developing/designing high-performance software systems
Extensive knowledge of Unix/Linux and Windows environments
Knowledge of TCP/IP, network programming and protocols (SSL, RTP, etc.)
Experience programming in Python

Location

Headquarters office: Pittsburgh, PA

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Software Engineer

Develop client-side applications that display the features of our hardware-accelerated speech recognition server. Projects will range from designing and developing compelling demonstration consoles to designing and implementing high performance, customer-specific applications.

Qualifications

BS or MS in computer science or equivalent
2+ years of software development experience
Extensive experience programming in C/C++ or Java
Experience developing/designing graphical user interfaces
Extensive knowledge of Windows environment (Unix/Linux is a plus)
Experience programming in Python
Experience with GUI toolkits (esp. Python) and GUI builders
Knowledge of TCP/IP and network programming a plus

Location

Headquarters office: Pittsburgh, PA

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Senior Hardware Design Engineer

The role of a Sr. Hardware Design Engineer is to define, develop, and deliver cutting-edge hardware for next generation Voci speech recognition products. The candidate would have extensive experience developing complex, high performance, application-specific designs with FPGAs and/or ASICs. An ideal candidate would be extremely knowledgeable with Xilinx tools and different memory technologies, such as BRAM and DDR2 DRAM. The candidate must be comfortable developing software models to prototype and profile hardware architectures. Familiarity of speech recognition is desirable. The candidate should have exceptional leadership qualities and communication skills.

Responsibilities

Investigate and develop new FPGA architectures for state-of-the-art speech recognition algorithms
Design, simulate, synthesize, and verify RTL code for FPGA use
Performance analysis (speed, timing, and area) of designs on FPGA
Software and hardware test and tool development for more efficient design

Qualifications

Minimum of 10 years or more of experience in Verilog, Xilinx FPGAs, and digital design
General knowledge of FPGA design process, computer architecture, and design verification tools
Hands-on commercial design experience developing and deploying FPGA-based products
Experience in hardware prototyping, bring-up, and debugging of FPGA applications
Experience developing high performance chip architectures desirable
Knowledge of DDR and DDR2 DRAM memory a plus
Strong C/C++programming and debugging skills
Experience with Xilinx ChipScope, PlanAhead a must
Knowledge of Linux OS and shell/Python scripting languages highly desirable
Start-up experience helpful as Voci is a fast-paced dynamic environment
BS in electrical engineering or computer engineering required; MS/PhD in electrical engineering or computer engineering preferred

Location

Headquarters office: Pittsburgh, PA

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Hardware Verification Engineer

The Hardware Verification Engineer’s primary focus is plan, develop, deploy, and support the hardware testing process of next generation Voci speech recognition products. A successful candidate should have good working knowledge of large, high-speed FPGA chip design and have experience with Xilinx design and verification flow. The candidate should have a strong software-centric verification background and experience developing in Verilog/C/C++. Understanding of speech recognition is a plus. The candidate should have both excellent communication and team work skills.

Responsibilities

Defining comprehensive formal verification test plans
Writing and executing RTL verification plans
Implementing and maintain Verilog/C/C++ testbenches and verification environments
Assisting designs with application of functional formal verification

Qualifications

Minimum of 5 years or more of experience in Verilog, Xilinx FPGAs, and digital design
Extensive experience in generating comprehensive testbenches
Strong C/C++programming and debugging skills
Familiarity with Xilinx ChipScope highly desirable
Experience with Linux and scripting languages such as Python
Start-up experience helpful as Voci is a fast-paced dynamic environment
BS in electrical engineering or computer engineering required; MS in electrical engineering or computer engineering preferred

Location

Headquarters office: Pittsburgh, PA

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Senior Speech Engineer

Voci seeks an outstanding speech engineer characterized by concrete contributions that have advanced the state of the art of either commercial or academic speech recognition systems. As a member of our development team, you will help define the development of algorithms and modeling techniques that take full advantage of our accelerated speech recognition hardware. You must have a strong track record of technological innovation and creative thinking, and enjoy the challenge of advancing state-of-the-art systems.

Essential attributes and competencies include: excellence in scientific thinking and execution. The ability to define and pursue experimental definition, conduct investigations, development and ultimately be responsible for the speech recognition performance of key products and services. The ability to work well in a small team environment is a must. Strong programming and analytical skills are expected.

Responsibilities

Provides technical leadership in research projects as well as contribute individually
Provide experimental and theoretical analysis of speech recognition problems
Formulate new algorithms, create research tools, design and carry out experiments to verify new algorithms
Innovate to improve accuracy of our speech recognition appliance
Work with hardware team members to introduce new product features into our hardware-accelerated architecture
Work with modeling team members to build and deliver production grade acoustic models
Work with development engineers to ensure a high quality implementation of algorithms
Follow developments in speech recognition research to keep our work state-of-the-art

Qualifications

PhD in computer science, electrical engineering, or language technologies
Expertise in one or more of acoustic modeling, discriminative training, statistical language modeling, efficient search algorithms, finite state transducers, statistical language modeling, and robust syntactic parsing
7+ years of Speech R&D in an academic or commercial setting
5+ years of experience in C/C++ and Python programming
Software development skills, aptitude for software algorithm design and coding
Extensive familiarity with one or more of Sphinx/HTK/Janus/Julius/Juicer
Experience in leading small research teams is a plus

Location

Headquarters office: Pittsburgh, PA

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Senior Speech Engineer

Voci seeks an outstanding speech engineer with a deep research and development expertise in acoustic modeling and discriminative training as applied to HMM-based and FST-based ASR systems. As member of our research and engineering team, you will develop leading edge modeling techniques that take full advantage of our accelerated speech recognition hardware. You must have a strong track record of technological innovation and creative thinking, and enjoy the challenge of advancing state-of-the-art systems.

Responsibilities

Develop and evaluate discriminative model training techniques, including MMIE and MPE.
Develop and optimize unsupervised multi-pass acoustic model adaptation
Build acoustic models for English and non-English languages to meet product accuracy and speed requirements
Develop methods for analyzing recognition errors related to pronunciations, language models, acoustic models, or noise compensation
Address language specific issues for different languages to optimize acoustic modeling strategy, including automation of lexicon development
Improve training and testing environment to increase the efficiency of the model development process
Document model development process and ensure reproducibility of delivered models

Qualifications

Masters or PhD degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or language technologies
Proven ability to innovate in the area of acoustic modeling
Proven ability to translate research ideas into production level software
Proficiency in Linux environment and bash programming
5+ years of experience in C/C++ and Python programming
Self-motivated with ability to work independently and interact with a small team
Extensive familiarity with one or more of Sphinx/HTK/Janus/Julius/Juicer
Fluency in multiple languages is a strong plus

Location

Headquarters office: Pittsburgh, PA

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