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 integral 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 Pro
📌 Automatic Speech Recognition Engineer (España)
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