Product R&D Engineer

Job Description
A Moving Experience.
Position summary
- Conduct research and development on NLU (Natural Language Understanding) for automotive, mobile
phone and IoT applications; Resolve the key issues of NLU in SDS (Speech Dialogue System); Be a
member of global R&D team to create new technologies/products; Follow up state-of-art NLP
technologies, including the deep-learning based NLP technologies and products;
- Principal duties and responsibilities
- Representative responsibilities/duties will include but not limited to:
- Research algorithms of NLP key components for NLU system;
- Conduct performance improvement on current solutions;
- Research and develop tools to collect and annotate NLU text corpus;
- Develop tools, train models, and evaluate NLU buffers for various applications and customer projects;
- Develop demos and products on various HW/SW platforms like Android, Linux, QNX devices;
- Development and maintenance of relevant processes for the use in production on key projects at
Cerence.

Knowledge, skills and qualifications

- Education: MS/PhD in Natural Language Processing, computer science, EE, math or related field.

Required skills:
- Basic Natural Language Processing knowledge and better to have hands-on experiences;
- Experience on running accuracy experiments and systematically improving performance. Self-driven and
diligent for solving real world problems;
- Proficiency in C/C++ programming skills and script programming (Python/Perl/Lua, etc.);
- Native speaker of Mandarin, and better to have one or more dialects;
- Ability to work well both independently and within a team;
- Prefer ASR R&D experience or have interests on learning ASR;
- Preferred skills:
- Team work spirit, self-motivated;
- Fluent English communication, or more second foreign languages;
- Accomplished coder – can realize research ideas effectively;

All prospective and current Employees need to remain vigilant when it comes to executing security policies in
the workplace. This includes:
- Following workplace security protocols and training programs to familiarize with the ways to maintain a
safe workplace.
- Following security procedures to report any suspicious activity.
- Having respect for corporate security procedures to allow those procedures to be effective.
- Adhering to company's compliance and regulations.
- Encouraging to follow a zero tolerance for workplace violence.

Please send your CV to: yu.dai@cerence.com