Senior System Software Engineer, Speech AI
NVIDIA
India, PunePosted 2 months ago
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Key highlights
- 6+ years of experience required
- Masters or BE/BTech in Computer Science, computer architecture, or related field
- Work on cutting‑edge GPU‑accelerated AI systems deployed at scale
- Develop C++ & Python backend implementations leveraging CUDA for GPU acceleration
- Provide advanced technical guidance to enterprise and developer customers on speech AI solutions
- Commitment to diversity and equal‑opportunity employment
Role overview
NVIDIA is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer specializing in speech technologies to work with enterprise and developer customers. The role involves hands‑on technical engagement to implement, troubleshoot, and optimize Automatic Speech Recognition, Text‑to‑Speech, Audio Language Models, and Speech‑to‑Speech systems, while collaborating with model researchers and building GPU‑accelerated backend services.
Responsibilities
- Work on cutting‑edge GPU‑accelerated AI systems deployed at scale
- Tackle challenging problems in real‑time streaming audio processing and low‑latency inference
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across ASR, TTS, ALM, and S2S pipelines
- Model Integration: Work alongside Model researchers to transition ASR, TTS and S2S models from research to production readiness.
- Develop Core Speech Services: Build and enhance C++ & python backend implementations for ASR, TTS, and S2S pipelines, leveraging CUDA for GPU acceleration
- Optimize Inference Performance: Improve streaming latency and throughput through advanced batching strategies, encoder caching, and multi‑threaded pipeline optimizations
- Feature Development: Add new capabilities such as advanced voice activity detection, speaker diarization, decoder implementations (CTC, WFST, Flashlight), and text post‑processing
- Client Libraries: Contribute to Python and C++ client SDKs and CLI tools for easy service integration
- Assist with API integration, SDK usage, model deployment, and performance optimization
- Provide advanced technical guidance to customers implementing speech technology solutions
Requirements
- Masters or BE/BTech in Computer Science, computer architecture, or related field
- 6+ years of experience
- Excellent C++ & Python programming and software design skills, including debugging, performance analysis, and test design.
- Experience with inference pipelines for LLM, Speech Recognition & Speech Synthesis
- Solid understanding of modern model architectures (Transformers, CNNs, RNNs)
- Excellent debugging abilities spanning multiple software (storage systems, kernels and containers)
- Experience building and deploying cloud services using HTTP REST, gRPC, Websockets and related technologies
- Strong collaborative and interpersonal skills, specifically a proven ability to effectively guide and influence within a dynamic matrix environment
- Ability to work independently, define project goals and scope and manage your own development effort.
- Knowledge of real-time streaming audio systems and low‑latency architectures
- Experience with speech model fine‑tuning or customization
Nice to have
- Publications or contributions to ML optimization open‑source projects.
- Experience with embedded systems or edge deployment
Additional details
- Widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers, NVIDIA is an industry leader with groundbreaking developments in High‑Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Visualization.
- The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services.
- GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, autonomous cars and conversational AI that can perceive and understand the world.
- Today, we are increasingly known as “the AI computing company.”
- We're looking to grow our company, and build our teams with the smartest people in the world. Join us at the forefront of technological advancement.
- NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.