Research scientist in Spoken Language Processing

NAVER LABS Europe's mission is to create new ways to interact with digital and physical agents, while paving the way for these innovations into a number of NAVER flagship products and services. This includes research in models and algorithms to give humans faster and better access to data and to allow them to interact with technology in simpler and more natural ways. To fulfill our vision of intelligent devices communicating seamlessly with us, we need to considerably improve existing technology and methods that solve natural language processing problems.

We are looking for applications from research scientists  to make outstanding contributions to the invention, development and benchmarking of spoken language processing techniques. The research scientist would be part of the Natural Language Processing group of NAVER LABS Europe and her mission would be to develop research on one or more of the following themes: spoken language translation, speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, voice-based conversational search (with potential collaborations with the Search&Recommendation group).

At NAVER LABS we encourage participation in the academic community. Our researchers collaborate closely with universities and regularly publish in venues such as ACL, EMNLP,  Interspeech, KDD, SIGIR, ICLR, ICML and NeurIPS.

- Ph.D. in spoken language processing, speech processing, NLP or machine learning.

- Knowledge of latest developments in statistical and deep learning as applied to NLP and speech.

- Strong publication record in top-tier NLP, speech or machine learning conferences.

- Strong development skills, preferably in python and knowledge of relevant frameworks (tensorflow, pytorch, etc).

You can apply for this position online. Don't forget to upload your CV and cover letter before you submit. Incomplete applications will not be accepted.

NAVER is the #1 Internet portal in Korea with activities that span a wide range of businesses including search, commerce, content, financial and cloud platforms.

NAVER LABS, co-located in Korea and France, is the organization dedicated to preparing NAVER’s future. NAVER LABS Europe is located in a spectacular setting in Grenoble, in the heart of the French Alps. Scientists at NAVER LABS Europe are empowered to pursue long-term research problems that, if successful, can have significant impact and transform NAVER. We take our ideas as far as research can to create the best technology of its kind. Active participation in the academic community and collaborations with world-class public research groups are, among others, important tools to achieve these goals. Teamwork, focus and persistence are important values for us.

NAVER LABS Europe is an equal opportunity employer.