Staff Research Scientist, Otter.ai
Speech
$210-275k
Office located in Mountain View, CA
AI notetaker, transcription & insights
Job no longer available
AI notetaker, transcription & insights
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$210-275k
Office located in Mountain View, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create smarter tools that free people up to do their best work.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for people with ASR/TTS/Speech-to-Speech experience
- 10+ years of industry experience in ASR, TTS, Speech-to-Speech or related areas
- Masters or Ph.D. degree in computer science, machine learning, speech/language processing or related field
- Strong programming skills with working knowledge of Python & C++
- Comfort working in a Linux command-line environment
- Team player with good communication skills (oral and written)
What the job involves
- Come join our core AI team responsible for speech science and work alongside industry-veteran scientists and engineers
- With your subject matter expertise in deep learning and speech processing you’ll have a high impact on our product and mission to make conversations more valuable
- Define research roadmap toward industry-leading speech-to-text, text-to-speech or speech-to-speech technologies
- Explore new algorithms and model structures with training, evaluating, and optimizing speech models for various factors including accuracy, latency, and resource utilization
- Preprocess and curate large speech datasets for training models
- Stay updated on the latest advancements in speech recognition and related technologies with opportunities to attend conferences
- Collaborate with backend team to deploy new models to production and mentor junior researchers and engineers
Our take
Otter specifically thought of business professionals who are running from one meeting to the next, while juggling multiple projects with various teams. The company's technology integrates with platforms like Zoom, providing a way to record meetings and convert speech to text in real-time. It then streamlines communications for smarter, more collaborative, and more productive meetings—the first use of conversational AI to turn meetings into an actionable workflow.
This allows people to benefit from captioning, as well as teams to have a written record of the conversation, which can be edited and shared. Its AI can also highlight and comment on important sections of a meeting transcript, and automatically tag action items. In addition to businesses, students and universities – including UCLA, Tulane, and Western Kentucky – use the tool to increase accessibility.
The platform is used in more than 230 countries and has transcribed over 100 million meetings. Otter is far from alone in the audio transcription market, estimated to be worth nearly $41.89 billion by 2030, with Google’s free transcription tool posing a potential threat, as well as competitors such as Rev.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
27% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2021
$10m
CONVERTIBLE
Feb 2021
$40m
SERIES B
Total funding: $73m
Company benefits
- Compensation: With highly competitive salaries and equity option packages, everyone's an owner here.
- Hybrid Working: You can mix and match working from our Mountain View or San Francisco office, plus a couple days from home.
- Social Gatherings: Quarterly gatherings in the Bay Area for some team real fun and authentic connection.
- Health and Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, and wellness benefits that start the first day you do.
- PTO: Start with a minimum of 15 days of paid time off, plus up to 18 weeks for maternity leave and 8 weeks for paternity leave.
- 401(k): Plans to help meet your retirement goals because we care about your future.
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Sam Liang
(Co-Founder & CEO)Earned a PhD from Stanford and then joined Cisco as a Senior Software Engineer. Worked as a Tech Lead at Google and is a member of the Forbes Technology Council.
Yun Fu
(Co-Founder & CTO)Has a PhD in Computer Science from Duke. Worked as Yahoo's Principal Software Engineer and was Head of Infrastructure at Particle Media.
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