Employment

Job Code: 18-15 (BP)
Location: Boulder CO

Job Summary:
The Emerging Technologies team defines, develops, and drives new product technologies in the areas of speech and computer vision. Since inception in 2013, the team has contributed to the development of facial recognition, voice biometrics, and noise suppression algorithms that are utilized within products such as Sensory’s TrulySecure biometric SDK. As a Research Scientist within the Emerging Technologies team, we are looking for an individual who can flexibly work across both speech and vision technology domains. This specific position will focus on the fusion of audio and visual signals to achieve increased system performance beyond that of a signal-channel solution.

Qualifications:

• 2 to 5 years (or equivalent experience) in the field of speech processing and/or computer vision.
• 3 to 5 years experience programming in C/C++, Matlab/Octave, and Python.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct independent and novel research.
• Demonstrated ability to lead efforts in developing new product technologies.
• 2 to 5 years experience with deep-learning packages (Tensorflow, Pytorch, Keras, etc.)

Primary Responsibilities:

• Define and develop technical solutions that combine audio and visual information for event triggers.
• Collaborate with Sensory’s audiovisual fusion team in developing product technology extensions.
• Prototype and validate new audiovisual fusion solutions incorporating deep-learning technology.

Primary Skills/Speciality/Technical Skills

• Demonstrated knowledge of audio or speech signal processing (e.g., feature extraction).
• Experience in data analysis and utilization of machine-learning techniques (including deep-learning) to solve pattern classification problems.
• Demonstrated knowledge of best practices in computer vision; utilization of computer vision techniques to solve real-world problems.
• Experience in using Open-Source deep-learning tools such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, etc.
• Familiarity with traditional machine learning algorithms (SVM, GMM, etc.) and deep-learning approach are a plus.

Education:

Master’s degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineer.
2 years of acoustics / speech recognition and/or speech signal processing experience.
2 years of Computer Vision experience.
2 years of Deep-Learning experience.

When applying, please indicate the following on the “SUBJECT” line:
Job Code 1815-BP–Research Scientist-Audio Vision Fusion (Emerging Technologies)

Job Code: 18-14 (BP)
Location: Boulder CO

Job Summary:
The Emerging Technologies team defines, develops, and drives new product technologies in the areas of speech and computer vision. Since inception in 2013, the team has contributed to the development of facial recognition, voice biometrics, and noise suppression algorithms that are utilized within products such as Sensory’s TrulySecure biometric SDK. As a Research Scientist within the Emerging Technologies team, we are looking for an individual who can flexibly work across a wide range of technology domains (acoustics, speech, vision, machine-learning) to bring new ideas from conceptualization into demonstratable and deployable technologies.

Qualifications:

• 2 to 5 years (or equivalent experienc) in the field of speech processing, speech recognition, signal processing, and/or computer vision
• 3 to 5 years experience programming in C/C++, Matlab/Octave, and Python.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct independent and novel research.
• Demonstrated ability to lead efforts in developing new product technologies.
• 3 years experience programming / prototyping on Android OS, ARM-Linux, or other similar platforms.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Extend and improve upon existing voice-biometric and sound-identification algorithms.
• Collaborate with Sensory’s TrulySecure computer vision team to incorporate voice-biometric solutions.
• Prototype and validate new signal-processing algorithms for far-field speaker identification
• Conduct basic prototyping and research related to fusion of audio and visual signals
• Train, test, and deploy wake-word and enrollable wake-word models as needed to meet customer deliveries

Primary Skills/Speciality/Technical Skills:

• Demonstrated knowledge in acoustic signal processing, speech-processing, and/or speech recognition.
• Experience in data analysis and utilization of machine-learning techniques (including deep-learning) to solve pattern classification problems.
• Strong programming ability in C/C++ and Python.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct independent and novel research to solve challenging problems.
• Experience using Open-Source deep-learning tools such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.
• Familiarity with traditional machine learning algorithms (SVM, GMM, etc.) and deep-learning approach are a plus.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineer plus 2 years of acoustics / speech recognition and/or speech signal processing

Job Code: 18-10
Location: Portland OR

Job Summary
Work with Sensory’s innovative technology development team to develop cutting-edge technologies and integrate these with proprietary product development tools.

Qualifications

• Minimum B.S. degree with a focus on pattern recognition or statistical modeling preferred
• Strong background in software development
• Strong knowledge of C
• Demonstrated ability to implement and debug mathematical/statistical algorithms

Primary Responsibilities

• Contribute to research and development of Sensory’s embedded speech recognition algorithms
• Develop and implement new or derived algorithms within the limitations of low-power and embedded platforms
• Work collaboratively with an innovative technology development team

Primary Skills / Speciality / Technical Skills

• Fundamental understanding of signal processing
• Some experience in pattern recognition (e.g. speech, vision etc), or related field
• 3 or more years of experience in industry

Preferred

• Bachelor’s Degree or advanced degree in a relevant field
• Three or more years of experience managing speech/video collection efforts

Job Code: 18-06 (GH)
Location: Boulder CO

As a Research Scientist within Sensory’s Vision Technologies team, you will bring your intelligence and drive to our patented and award-winning speech and vision products.

Sensory (www.sensory.com) has been a leader in providing speech recognition technologies for many of the top consumer electronics manufacturers. We recently established the Vision Technologies team to create innovative new products that combine Sensory’s speech technology with world-class computer vision, and now our TrulySecure face recognition product is rapidly gaining market share. That’s where you come in. Join our team of outstanding researchers and developers located in Boulder CO, and you’ll have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge mobile and desktop technology, and help further drive the success of our vision products.

Performance Objectives

Here’s what you’ll do when you join the Sensory Vision team:

• Extend and improve our existing algorithms: help us remain at the cutting edge of deep learning research, as we continue to improve the accuracy, robustness and ease of use of our face recognition and speech technologies.
• Create new vision-based biometrics: help us deepen the connections between voice and face by looking at things like lip tracking, or exploring 3-D face recognition.
• Extend our technologies: take us beyond biometrics or even computer vision, in areas such as demographics, lip reading, gesture recognition, and sensor fusion. Bring your ideas on what can be done to leverage our existing technology and then make those ideas real, whether it involves taking existing algorithms off the shelf or inventing new ones in house.
• Provide technology leadership: we’re innovators – that’s what makes us successful. We need someone who is going to bring vision and technical knowledge to help us maintain our industry leadership. You will need to keep track of new developments in machine learning and computer vision, and bring them to bear on our problems.

Qualifications

For us, qualifications are whatever enables you to meet (and exceed) your performance objectives. So we’re not going to specify a number of years of experience, or tell you exactly what degrees you must have. But here are a few things that should come through on your resume:

• Strong research record: You’ve published papers (e.g., in NIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICCV), and/or have demonstrated industry research results in patents or products.
• Experience with machine learning and computer vision tools: You’ve used neural network libraries such as Caffe, Keras, Tensorflow, and Torch, and scientific libraries such as NumPy, Matplotlib, scikit-learn, skimage, and hyperopt. You understand images and video, and the computer vision tools used to manipulate them (e.g., OpenCV).
• Cutting edge knowledge: You follow trends in the industry, and look to take advantage of the latest breakthroughs when applicable. As a result, you are intimately familiar with a wide array of methods.
• Results oriented: You understand deeply why designing the algorithm itself is just one part of delivering a real solution. There are lots of reasons for this: your test data never quite covers what you will actually experience in the field, there are almost always considerations related to bandwidth or processing power or something else that put constraints on what you can do, and the calibration and configuration steps cannot require the end user to obtain a Ph.D. to complete. But these are challenges you relish.
• Solid programming experience: We prototype in Python and Matlab, and write our shipping code in C++. If you’ve done those, that’s great, but we mostly just need to be convinced that you understand optimization concerns, are comfortable with OOP, and understand issues related to speed and footprint of the code you write.
• Innovative thinking: There’s lots of buzz about security and biometrics, and Sensory is perfectly positioned to be a major player in making that vision reality. So if you’ve thought seriously about how to approach this, then you’ll find opportunities here to try those ideas out.

Culture

• The Sensory Vision team uses an iterative/agile development methodology (borrowing heavily from Scrum), and you will be a key contributor in the entire development cycle – building data sets, developing the algorithm, implementing it in production code, and making it work in real products.
• At Sensory, we put a great deal of emphasis on collaboration and maintaining an open working environment – having great coworkers is one of the strongest determinants for enjoying work, and we take our enjoyment of work very seriously.
• Your opinions matter. We’re driven by technology and innovation, and we look to the smartest, most passionate people on the team as the source of ideas.

Cover Letter

If this sounds like the kind of opportunity you’ve been looking for, then we’re going to need your CV, of course, but equally importantly send us a cover letter giving us a sense of why you think you are absolutely the right person for this job. Tell us how and why you are going to meet and exceed the objectives above, and then we’ll tell you how we can meet and exceed your goals for a great place to work.

About Sensory

Sensory, Inc. is a profitable, fast-growing private company that licenses cutting edge speech and vision technologies to consumer electronics manufacturers. Our technologies have shipped in over two billion units from hundreds of leading consumer product companies like Hasbro, LG, Mattel, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba.

Sensory’s mission is to improve the way humans interact with consumer products by designing highly accurate, low-cost, low-current, small-footprint speech and vision solutions that work!

Job Code: 18-08 (PV)
Location: Portland, OR

Job Summary:
A downtown speech technology company is looking for a part-time Information Technology Support Specialist needed to maintain, upgrade and manage our Linux-based software and hardware needs. We are looking for someone who can work flexible hours and be available during off-hours if needed for hardware maintenance.

Qualifications:
3-5 years experience managing Linux-based and multi-platform systems and infrastructure. Demonstrated ability to manage computer infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and support of our Linux-based computer server hardware and software
• Maintain and support our office network infrastructure
• Maintain and support data backup infrastructure
• Support speech and vision data collection team

Primary Skills/Specialty/Technical Skills:

• A strong background knowledge in Linux-based systems
• Knowledge of multi-platform single sign-on system

Education:

• High school diploma or GED
• 3 years of experience in hardware, software infrastructure and maintenance

Job Code: 18-13 (BT)

Location: Santa Clara, CA

Note: This is NOT a Telecommute Position

Status: Full Time Employment

About Sensory
Sensory, Inc. is a profitable, fast-growing private company that licenses cutting edge speech and vision technologies to consumer electronics manufacturers. Our technologies have shipped in over two billion units from hundreds of leading consumer product companies like Hasbro, LG, Mattel, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba.
Sensory’s mission is to improve the way humans interact with consumer products by designing highly accurate, low-cost, low-current, small-footprint speech and vision solutions that work!

Job Summary:
The qualified candidate will directly contribute to the advancement of Sensory’s best-in-class speech recognition and also noise management technologies. Sensory is the recognized market leader in voice user interfaces for Internet of Things, mobile and automotive markets. This Audio QA Test engineer will interface directly with customers to capture the relevant environmental information, and create a spec that reflects the spatial makeup of the use case and the interfering noise characteristics. The engineer will use the spec to benchmark the technologies in simulation and in lab settings and provide guidance to Sensory’s technologists, Field Application Engineers and our customers. The engineer will create design of tests and reports based on relevant statistical standards, such that the reports convey the information effectively for Sensory’s technologists and our customers. This engineer must be an independent self-starter, identifying needs and moving to address those needs.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead communicator with customers on use case requirements and benchmark results
• Lead for designing audio tests for simulation and for lab setups to validate speech recognition & noise tech
• Designing tests and reports driven by the relevant statistical methods

Primary Skills / Speciality / Technical Skills 

Must have:

• BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
• 3-5 years experience Audio QA Test
  Experience with lab setups or working with lab engineers to create those setups
• Strong skills with analytical software – both using and manipulating; solid statistics abilities
• Good writing skills
• Strong, clear verbal communicator

Prefer to have:

• Experience with speech recognition testing on IoT platforms in IoT environments
• Experience with IoT audio QA Test
• Experience with Matlab
• Experience with room simulators

Key Qualifications

• 3-5 years experience as an Audio QA Test Engineer
• strong background in test/benchmarking – design of test based on customer specs & reports of the results
• strong statistics math skills
• good communicator with a background in interfacing with customers and engineering partners.

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
• 3-5 years of Audio QA Test Engineering – required

Travel Requirements:
1 Trip in 3 Months

Job Code: 17-05 (KH)

Location: Portland, OR or Boulder, CO

Job Summary
Lead Sensory technology development in the area of natural language understanding. Focus will be on data driven learned solutions when possible, but drawing on best and all available state of the art. We are targeting limited, to extremely limited, footprint solutions. Collaborate with the speech technology and engineering teams to deliver complete applications.

Key Qualifications

• A PhD in CS, EE or related field, with a particular emphasis on natural language processing and speech technologies
• Familiarity with data driven approaches in spoken language systems (recognition, understanding and generation)
• Hands on experience with deep learning algorithms and techniques.
• Knowledge of deep learning frameworks (e.g. tensorflow)
• Strong programming experience in C/C++ and scripting languages
• Excellent verbal and written communications

Primary Responsibilities

• Report to VP of Spoken Language Systems
• Plan a long term research and development work for data driven spoken language understanding, dialog management and language generation
• Determine human and data resources required for the successful execution of projects
• Work closely with management and the language resource to hire required people and acquire/create relevant data resources, respectively
• Manage a team of speech technologists to develop, test and verify new spoken language systems
• Collaborate with application engineers for integrating the technologies developed into demos and products
• Keep up-to-date with the state of the art and trending approaches in spoken language systems, and deep learning and data-driven algorithms and frameworks.

Primary Skills/Specialty/Skill

• 2 years of experience in developing spoken language systems
• Familiarity with the field of ‘artificial intelligence’
• Familiarity with ‘Artificial Personal Assistants’ and ‘Chatbot’ technologies

Education and Experience Level
Doctorate (PhD) in CS/EE or related field
2 years Spoken Language Systems (preferred)

Job Code: 14-23

Location: Santa Clara, CA

Job Description

Sensory is seeking a smart and aggressive marcom professional with a background and experience in B2B PR for embedded technologies sold into mobile and consumer electronic markets. Sensory is a leader in providing speech recognition technologies into consumer products such as mobile phones and wearables. We have a long and successful history and a well-known customer base (Samsung, LG, Motorola, Mattel, etc.) of leading innovators in consumer electronics. We compete against large multi-billion dollar companies and we are beating them in the niche markets we take on. We are now under an aggressive expansion into vision technologies and other new areas. We would like to get our story told and are looking to establish an external marketing force to do that.

Primary Duties/Responsibilities

• Work with CEO on PR and marketing strategy
• Draft press releases, contact editors, bloggers, and analysts to tell our story
• Improve & update online image – website, Wikipedia, Linked In, etc.
• Plan/participate in events like Pepcom at CES, Mobile World Congress, etc.
• Seek out and apply for industry awards
• Assist in all external communications and documentation
• Possibility to find/hire/manage external PR firm in the future
• Manage GoogleAds, SEO, and other external “pull” marketing approaches

Requirements

• 2-5 yrs PR agency experience running B2B technology
• Strong contact base with mobile bloggers, writers, and industry analysts
• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills
• Willingness to get on the phone and make calls
• Ability to tell a highly technical story
• Knowledge of and opinions on web design
• Excellent attention to detail, great follow-through and ability to multi-task
• Experience with SEO and social networking on LinkedIn and B2B channels
• Creative, intelligent, and organized individual

Preferences

• A passion for breakthrough consumer HMI technology
• Degree from a top school
• Desire to take on responsibility and lead with minimal direction

Excellent pay, benefits and equity opportunity for the qualified candidate!

*Sensory is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes from third party agencies or recruiters not associated with Sensory.*

Sensory is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action (EEO/AA) employer Minorities/Female/Disabled/Veteran (M/F/D/V)

Job Code: 13-04
Location: Portland, OR

Qualifications

• Strong background in pattern recognition (e.g. speech, vision etc), or related field
• Ability to develop and implement new or derived algorithms within the limitations of low-power and embedded platforms
• Ability to prosper and work collaboratively with an innovative technology development team
• A generalist, rather than a specialist, with proven ability to learn from related fields

Primary Duties/Responsibilities

• Contributing to research and development of Sensory’s embedded speech recognition algorithms

Requirements

• Ph.D. with a focus on pattern recognition or statistical modeling preferred; master’s degree required
• Demonstrated ability to lead technology evolution with disciplined processes shown by papers and past accomplishments required
• Demonstrated ability in pattern recognition systems required
• Strong knowledge of C required

Preferences

• Fundamental understanding of signal processing preferred
• Strong knowledge of Tcl and/or other scripting language preferred
• 3 or more years of experience in industry preferred

*Sensory is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes from third party agencies or recruiters not associated with Sensory.*

Sensory is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action (EEO/AA) employer Minorities/Female/Disabled/Veteran (M/F/D/V)

Job Code: 12-04

Qualifications

This position requires a smart, energetic, technical, self-directing, creative, hard working, very well organized, and flexible individual. We offer an exciting opportunity at a growing technology company targeting consumer product and telephony manufacturers with a line of cutting edge speech chips and technologies. We are the leader in a growing market for voice user interfaces in consumer electronics. An ideal candidate will combine a strong technical background along with experience in product marketing of wireless, consumer or microcontroller IC’s. Must be comfortable with broad set of duties/responsibilities.

Primary Duties/Responsibilities

• Product Planning & Management – Manage Sensory product releases (IC’s, Software, and Tools) and help drive the development of new products, features, and technologies.
• Documentation and Collateral – Responsible for look, feel, accuracy, standardization, and control of all Sensory documents going out to customers. Manage contract technical editors.
• Market/Customer Research – Collect customer information and feedback, analyze data, and conduct research to better understand and explore new market opportunities.
• Sales Tools – Create and maintain tools to help sales efforts (lit, demo’s, mktg. programs, etc.)
  Internet/Web Marketing – Attract customers through the Internet
• Concept Marketing – Invent new applications for Sensory’s technology, and sell the concepts.
  MARCOM & Rep Marketing – Insure press coverage in target markets, assist in tradeshows, lead communications with international rep network.
• Strategic Planning – Assist the management team in charting Sensory’s business, market, and product stategies.

Requirements and Preferences

• 2 years experience as a Marketing Manager, preferably with consumer IC’s or telecom ICs.
• Strong technical and market knowledge of as many of the following markets as possible: wireless handsets, PDA’s, toys, hands free speakerphones, VOIP and SOHO phones, consumer electronics and home appliances.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• BSEE and/or MBA. Top School Preferred.

*Sensory is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes from third party agencies or recruiters not associated with Sensory.*

Sensory is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action (EEO/AA) employer Minorities/Female/Disabled/Veteran (M/F/D/V)

Job Code: 12-06

Qualifications

• Strong background in large-vocabulary continuous-speech recognition
• Experience in porting algorithms to embedded processor and mobile platforms
• Ability to develop and implement new or derived algorithms within the limitations of low-power and embedded platforms
• Ability to prosper and work collaboratively with an innovative technology development team

Primary Duties/Responsibilities

• Driving research and development of robust parsing in Sensory’s large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system
• Contributing to research and development of language modeling components of Sensory’s technology
• Contributing to research and development of grammar-directed search and information retrieval components of Sensory’s technology
• Porting and supporting porting of applicable technologies to embedded platforms, including different processors, memory subsystems, operating systems (or lack thereof) and audio channels
• Quoting projects to develop new technologies or port existing technologies

Requirements and Preferences

• Ph.D. with a focus on speech recognition or related field preferred; master’s degree required
• Demonstrated ability to lead technology evolution with disciplined processes shown by papers and past accomplishments required.
• Demonstrated ability in speech recognition systems required.
• Fundamental understanding of computer architecture required.
• Strong knowledge of C required.
• Strong knowledge of Tcl and/or other scripting language preferred.
• 3 or more years of experience in the speech recognition industry preferred.

*Sensory is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes from third party agencies or recruiters not associated with Sensory.*

Sensory is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action (EEO/AA) employer Minorities/Female/Disabled/Veteran (M/F/D/V)

Job Code: 12-07

Qualifications

• Strong background in large-vocabulary continuous-speech recognition
• Experience in porting algorithms to embedded processor and mobile platforms
• Ability to develop and implement new or derived algorithms within the limitations of low-power and embedded platforms
• Ability to prosper and work collaboratively with an innovative technology development team

Primary Duties/Responsibilities

• Driving research and development of noise-robust front end of Sensory’s speech recognition systems
• Developing state-of-the-art, novel algorithms for noise-robust and minimal-footprint speech recognition systems
• Porting and supporting porting of applicable technologies to embedded platforms, including different processors, memory subsystems, operating systems (or lack thereof) and audio channels
• Quoting projects to develop new technologies or port existing technologies

Requirements and Preferences

• Ph.D. with a focus on speech recognition or related field preferred; master’s degree required
• Demonstrated ability to lead technology evolution with disciplined processes shown by papers and past accomplishments required.
• Demonstrated ability in speech recognition systems required.
• Fundamental understanding of computer architecture required.
• Strong knowledge of C required.
• Strong knowledge of Tcl and/or other scripting language preferred.
• 3 or more years of experience in the speech recognition industry preferred.

*Sensory is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes from third party agencies or recruiters not associated with Sensory.*

Sensory is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action (EEO/AA) employer Minorities/Female/Disabled/Veteran (M/F/D/V)

Job Code: 12-08

Qualifications

• Strong background in large-vocabulary continuous-speech recognition
• Experience in porting algorithms to embedded processor and mobile platforms
• Ability to develop and implement new or derived algorithms within the limitations of low-power and embedded platforms
• Ability to prosper and work collaboratively with an innovative technology development team

Primary Duties/Responsibilities

• Driving research and development to improve quality of acoustic modeling within limitations of wide-ranging systems, from very small to very large footprints
• Porting and supporting porting of applicable technologies to embedded platforms, including different processors, memory subsystems, operating systems (or lack thereof) and audio channels
• Quoting projects to develop new technologies or port existing technologies

Requirements and Preferences

• Ph.D. with a focus on speech recognition or related field preferred; master’s degree required
• Demonstrated ability to lead technology evolution with disciplined processes shown by papers and past accomplishments required.
• Demonstrated ability in speech recognition systems required.
• Fundamental understanding of computer architecture required.
• Strong knowledge of C required.
• Strong knowledge of Tcl and/or other scripting language preferred.
• 3 or more years of experience in the speech recognition industry preferred.

*Sensory is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes from third party agencies or recruiters not associated with Sensory.*

Sensory is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action (EEO/AA) employer Minorities/Female/Disabled/Veteran (M/F/D/V)