Software Engineer - Language Modeling (Spanish)

About the Role:

• This is a fantastic opportunity to join the core group working on Speech Recognition at SoundHound
• Work on building Statistical Language Models for the Spanish language
• Work on various Natural Language Processing problems like data normalization, Text segmentation, Part of Speech tagging, Named Entity Recognition, Spelling correction etc

Requirements:

• Proficient in Java or C++ or Python
• Strong programming skills and ability to write clean code
• Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures
• Strong problem solving and communication skills
• Advanced level fluency in written and spoken Spanish
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience working on NLP problems for the Spanish language
• Familiarity with Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing algorithms
• Familiarity with Hadoop/MapReduce/Spark
• MS in Computer Science or equivalent