Job Opportunity: Project Officer at NTU - College of Computing & Data Science

The College of Computing & Data Science (CCDS) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is inviting applications for the position of Project Officer. If you are passionate about AI, speech recognition, and language technologies, we want to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities

• Research and develop cutting-edge speech and language technologies to meet project requirements, particularly in LLM and speech recognition for AI applications.
• Regularly conduct model training and evaluation for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) tasks.
• Report experimental results to supervisors and project funders, propose improvement solutions, and ensure targeted deliverables are met at each project milestone.
• Organize and prepare acoustic and text data for text-to-speech and speech recognition training using advanced deep learning frameworks such as Huggingface, Whisper, and ESPnet.
• Document and transfer developed models to the engineering team or project’s funder for replication and future applications.
• Publish papers in top-tier conferences and journals in relevant fields.
• Collaborate with the engineering team to develop demonstration systems.
• Manage the team's computing resources to support research experiments.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields.
• Experience with LLM, speech and text data processing, and data preparation for deep learning model training.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Pytorch, C/C++, and Linux Bash/Shell.
• Experience with speech processing frameworks such as ESPnet, Wenet, Whisper, and Kaldi.
• Strong background in deep learning for speech and language technologies, transformers, and end-to-end ASR.
• Publications in top-tier conferences in speech processing fields like Interspeech, ICASSP is a plus.
• Entry-level candidates with solid programming experience are invited to apply.

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Hiring Institution

Nanyang Technological University (NTU)