Machine Learning Engineer, Speechmatics
Paving the way with Speech AI
Posted today
Paving the way with Speech AI
101-200 employees
Posted today
101-200 employees
Company mission
To combine the latest breakthroughs in AI to understand every voice, language, accent, demographic or dialect.
Role
Who you are
- Ambitious Engineers keen to work on bleeding-edge speech recognition and representational learning
- Experience owning areas of code, seeking alignment rather than guidance
- Proven-track record of delivering results, moving fast and keeping things simple
- Someone who loves working in collaborative and diverse teams
- Has a growth mindset and loves to develop oneself and others
- Enjoys solving challenging problems and optimising a stack of unfamiliar code
What the job involves
- Speechmatics is a cutting-edge applied AI Research company that is breaking down cultural barriers by building diverse and inclusive speech technology
- We are looking for an experienced Machine Learning Engineer who can help us advance our automatic speech recognition (ASR) engines for Flow, our new Conversational AI companion and create interactive voice interfaces of the future that ‘Understand Every Voice’
- We are betting big on scaling models, so you will be working with millions of hours of audio and billion parameter models which train across dozens of GPUs
- It’s all about finding bottlenecks across our 50+ languages
- Our main research focuses are large-scale self-supervised learning, building state-of-the-art speech pipelines and breaking ground on our own emotive text-to-speech (TTS) models
- Working with a diverse group of engineers across Speechmatics
- Scaling self-supervised learning models across hundreds of GPUs in the cloud
- Experimenting with distillation or quantisation to speed up our models at runtime
- Comparing compute efficiencies of architectures such as a transformer and the impact on WER
- Developing new, state-of-the-art AI features, from training models, all the way to shipping it to production
- Advancing end-to-end speech models and researching new approaches to TTS
- We aim to get you onboarded and started on projects in your first few days
- In addition, having a very collaborative culture, you will often be pair programming with a colleague on streamlining our production ML pipelines, reviewing other folks’ code and suggesting new ways to tackle a tough real time factor (RTF) optimisation problem, as well as brainstorming novel approaches for analysing model predictions with the team
Our take
Speechmatics is unlocking the business value of human speech. Developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge, Speechmatics is a provider of speech recognition technology that easily transforms structured and unstructured voice data into text.
Speechmatics doesn't simply transcribe, its API can also summarise, detect topics, gauge sentiments, and translate in real-time or from recorded media. Ultimately the company aims to create a seamless and inclusive relationship between human/computer interactions and crucially, it can adapt to numerous industries and use cases so as to understand every voice, language, accent, demographic or dialect. This enables businesses to grasp the essence of human speech, transcending biases commonly built into LLMs.
Speechmatics' software currently operates in over 48 languages and it counts Veritone, Deloitte, Vonage, 3PlayMedia, and Vail among its customers. Recognised as a Top 10 Trailblazer in AI by Fast Company, Speechmatics moved to focus on intelligence in 2023, capitalising on accuracy but also using the power of LLMs to provide overall business value.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2022
$62m
SERIES B
Oct 2019
$8.7m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $82.3m
Company benefits
- Incredibly Flexible Working 🤸
- With our 'Focus Fridays' you get an undisturbed day of focus 🧘♀️, offset with Together Tuesdays when we have our team meetings 👫
- Company Lunches, with fully stocked snacks and drinks 🥗
- Private Medical and Dental for you and your family 🏥 Our plan is Medical History Disregarded, and we cover the premiums
- Global Working Opportunities 🌎
- Generous Holiday Allowance ☀️
- Pension/401K matching 🪺
- Home allowance for tech/home office equipment (on top of your choice of laptop, screen and accessories- of course) 🧑💻
- EV Scheme 🚗
- Work from Abroad Scheme 🏝️
- Learning & Development budget 📚
- Enhanced Parental Leave 🫶
- Free On-Site Massages 💆♀️
- Independent Financial Advice 💷
- Friday Lunch Yoga 🧘
- Wellbeing Support 🤲 Health Assured provide: A 24/7 confidential employee assistance programme
- Charity Day 🎗️
- Cycle to Work Scheme 🚲
- Life Insurance 🛟
- Referral Bonus 🧑💻
- Patent Bonus 💡
- Income Protection 🔒
- Reproductive Health Plan 👩⚕️ We are providing access for Speechlings to receive specialist reproductive health services that can include; Hormone & Fertility Tests; Fertility Advisor Calls; Menopause Consultations (Advanced Nurse Prescriber); Nutrition Consultations (Prenatal, Postpartum, Fertility or Menopause); Fertility Counselling; Private Gynaecologist Consultations.
Company values
- Move Fast - We believe in finding the perfect balance between the complex and the simple. When you become part of a collaborative team like ours, you have the freedom to fail fast and move on.
- People First - We believe in putting people first. We don’t just want the best teams; we want the best values fit. When you’re part of our team, we’ll do all we can to help you develop your skills.
- Care Deeply - Our aim is to ‘Understand Every Voice’. This thinking doesn’t just extend to our technology. We care deeply about our customers, especially when it comes to the impact our actions have on the world.
- Be Ambitious - To make positive change within our industry, takes bold and forward-thinking action. Which is why we believe in big goals. Our results show that, while change is never easy, it’s always worthwhile.
Articles
Leadership
Tony Robinson
(Founder)Tony pioneered recurrent neural networks in speech recognition and has built and scaled multiple speech groups and companies.
Katy Wigdahl
(CEO)Katy is a fantastic CEO and brings with her a wealth of experience in leading finance functions and improving the overall quality of data and decision-making.
People progressing
Seve joined in 2020 as a Head of Partnerships & Alliances, before progressing to Strategic Business Lead, driving growth alongside the CEO and leveraging strong partnerships for success. She was promoted to Principal Strategy Manager in 2025.
Liam Steadman has recently progressed to ML Lead, driving advancements in speech recognition technology to enhance understanding across diverse languages.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Speechmatics
David Field (Senior Director, People & Talent)
- At Speechmatics, our mission is simple: understanding every voice out there. That's not just about our tech – it's the heart and soul of who we are. We welcome different experiences, viewpoints, and identities. For us, it’s not just the right thing to do; it’s our catalyst for sparking innovation and creativity. Our teams thrive in an environment that celebrates and supports everyone – no matter their gender, identity or expression, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief, marital status, national origin, veteran status, pregnancy, or maternity status. But we don’t just open the door to diversity – we actively welcome it. Why? Because we believe every unique voice adds something special to our team, leading us to smarter solutions and a better workplace. So, come as you are and join our Speechling community. We’re building a place where every voice not only gets heard but is also respected and valued.
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