Senior Data Scientist- Audio And Speech (Multimodal AI)

?Are you ready to push the boundaries of Audio IntelligenceWe're looking for a Senior Data Scientist with deep expertise in Audio AI, Speech Processing, and Generative Modeling to design and develop advanced on‐prem multimodal systems capable of understanding, generating, and analyzing complex audio streams in noisy, real‐world environmentsYou'll join a world‐class Defense Tech AI team building speech‐driven solutions that enable intelligent communication, operational insight, and next‐generation human‐machine interaction:What You'll DoFine tune, and evaluate Speech‐to‐Text (STT) models optimized for noisy, low‐latency, and mission‐critical environmentsDevelop speaker identification and diarization ,sentiment and emotional analysis to detect tone, stress levels, and affective patternsDesign and optimize multimodal pipelines combining audio, text, and visual inputs for enhanced semantic understanding and cross‐modal reasoningContribute to Generative AI innovations - noise reduction, voice conversion, speech enhancement, and conversation insightsCollaborate closely with ML engineers and research peers to deploy, scale, and optimize Audio AI models on‐prem and edge hardwareWork with domain experts to adapt models for real‐time speech understanding, decision support, and behavioral insights:Your ExpertiseSolid background in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Audio Signal Processing5+ years hands‐on experience developing and deploying speech or audio‐based AI models3+ years focused on STT / ASR, TTS, speaker recognition, or sentiment analysisDeep familiarity with architectures such as Conformer, Whisper, RNN‐Transducer, FastSpeech / Tacotron, speaker embedding networks, and self‐supervised speech representationsExperience handling noisy, real‐time audio, latency optimization, and edge‐device constraintsUnderstanding of semantic embeddings, multimodal search, and RAG architecturesStrong data‐driven mindset and ability to conduct research on novel Audio AI approachesComfortable working with Agile workflows, MLOps, and DevOps principlesPublication record, Kaggle or challenge participation, or equivalent - Advantage:Why Join UsWork with leading researchers and engineers on next‐generation Speech and Audio IntelligenceMake a direct impact on speech understanding, generation, and sentiment analytics in real‐world applicationsCollaborate on cutting‐edge multimodal AI systems integrating vision, audio, and languageBe part of a forward‐thinking team that values creativity, research excellence, and continuous learningShape the future of Audio and Speech AI - from concept to deploymentOnly suitable applications will be considered#Netanya