The European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA), a company
specialised in Human Language Technologies within an international
context is currently seeking to fill an immediate vacancy for a
permanent Technical Engineer/Scientist (Project Manager) position,
specialized in Speech and Multimodal technologies.

Technical Engineer / Scientist (Project Manager) in Speech and
Multimodal Technologies

Under the supervision of the CEO, the responsibilities of the
Technical Engineer/Scientist include designing/specifying language
resources, setting up production frameworks and platforms, carrying
out quality control and assessment. He/she will be in charge of
renovating the current language resources production workflows. This
yields excellent opportunities for young, creative, and motivated
candidates wishing to participate actively to the Language Engineering
field. He/she will be in charge of conducting the activities related
to language resources and Speech and Multimodal technologies. The task
will mostly consist in managing language resources production projects
and co-ordinating ELDA's participation in R&D projects while being
also hands-on whenever required by the development team.

Profile :

- PhD in computer science, speech, audiovisual/multimodal technologies

- Experience and/or good knowledge in speech data collection,
  expertise in phonetics, transcription tools

- Experience in speech recognition, synthesis, speaker ID and the
  well-used packages (e.g. KALDI) and the tools to produce, collect
  and assess quality of resources and datasets

- Experience and/or good knowledge of the Language Technology area

- Experience with technology transfer projects, industrial projects,
  collaborative projects within the European Commission or other
  international frameworks

- Good knowledge of Linux and open source software

- Proficiency in Python

- Hands-on experience in Django is a plus

- Ability to work independently and as part of a team, in particular
  the ability to supervise members of a multidisciplinary team

- Dynamic and communicative, flexible to combine and work on different
  tasks

- Proficiency in French and English

- Citizenship of (or residency papers) a European Union country


All applications will be carefully examined until the position is
filled. The position is based in Paris.

Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Applicants should email a cover letter addressing the points listed
above together with a curriculum vitae to: job@elda.org.

ELDA is a human-sized company (15 people) acting as the distribution
agency of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA). ELRA was
established in February 1995, with the support of the European
Commission, to promote the development and exploitation of Language
Resources (LRs). Language Resources include all data necessary for
language engineering, such as monolingual and multilingual lexica,
text corpora, speech databases and terminology. The role of this
non-profit membership Association is to promote the production of LRs,
to collect and to validate them and, foremost, make them available to
users. The association also gathers information on market needs and
trends.

For further information about ELDA/ELRA, visit: http://www.elra.info