Research Scientist / Senior Research Scientist

A Moving Experience.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Research Scientist / Senior Research Scientist – Japanese ASR with strong Japanese language expertise and hands-on speech recognition experience to develop and deliver high-quality in-vehicle voice interaction solutions. The role focuses on Japanese ASR development, evaluation, tuning, issue analysis, and customer/project support in close collaboration with global R&D and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve Japanese ASR models and solutions for automotive use cases.
• Support ASR modeling, training/fine-tuning, evaluation, tuning, and validation.
• Perform WER/CER and bad-case analysis, and support optimization and bug fixing.
• Support Japanese-specific topics such as tokenizer, lexicon, text normalization, names, POIs, and addresses.
• Support customer requirements, testing, validation, and project delivery.

Qualifications

Required

• Native or near-native Japanese; JLPT N1 or equivalent for non-native speakers.
• Fluent English communication skills.
• Hands-on experience in ASR modeling/development, evaluation, tuning, or integration.
• Experience with Python, C/C++, or Java and Linux/Unix.
• Master’s degree or above in a relevant technical field.

Preferred

• Experience with Conformer/Transformer-based ASR, or Whisper-style models.
• Experience with Japanese ASR or automotive voice products.
• For Senior level, strong technical ownership and production ASR experience.

Cerence Inc. (Nasdaq: CRNC and www.cerence.com) is the global industry leader in creating unique, moving experiences for the automotive world. Spun out from Nuance in October 2019, Cerence is a new, independent company that has quickly gained traction as a leader in the automotive voice assistant space, working with all of the world’s leading automakers – from Ford and Fiat Chrysler to Daimler, Audi and BMW to Geely and SAIC – to transform how a car feels, responds and learns. Its track record is built on more than 20 years of industry experience and leadership and more than 500 million cars on the road today across more than 70 languages.  

As Cerence looks to the future and continues an ambitious growth agenda, we need someone to join the team and help build the future of voice and AI in cars. This is an exciting opportunity to join Cerence’s passionate, dedicated, global team and be a part of meaningful innovation in a rapidly growing industry. 

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