Hippocratic AI · 10 hours ago
Research Scientist, Speech Technologies
Palo Alto, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
3+ years expHippocratic AI is the leading generative AI company in healthcare, focused on creating safe, autonomous clinical conversations with patients. The Research Scientist in Speech Technologies will design and evaluate data-driven models for speech applications and participate in research activities to enhance speech technologies in the medical domain.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIHealth CareInformation Technology
Responsibilities
Design, Develop, Evaluate and update data-driven models for Speech First applications
Participate in Research activities including the application and evaluation of speech technologies in the medical domain
Research and implement 0 to 1 SOTA models for conversational speech recognition
Qualification
Required
PhD with 3+ years of experience in Speech Recognition or related field or Masters with 5+ years of hands on experience with ASR
Experience Designing and developing algorithms for accurate and efficient speech recognition for both Streaming and Non-Streaming use cases
Experience with Training, evaluating, and optimizing ASR models for various factors including accuracy, latency, and resource utilization
Experience with Preprocessing and curating large speech datasets for training models
Strong programming skills with working knowledge of Python & C++
Comfort working in a Linux/ Unix command-line environment
Team player with good communication skills (oral and written)
Preferred
Experience with building 0 to 1 ASR solutions, including setting up data pipelines, SOTA model architectures and evaluation pipelines
Hands-on Experience with ESPNET, Kaldi and Pytorch
Experience with CUDA
Experience with leveraging LLMs for enhanced speech recognition tasks
Experience with Neural/ E2E Endpointer modeling
Publications in tier 1 journals in the field of speech recognition/ NLP
Company
Hippocratic AI
Hippocratic AI is a healthcare technology company that develops safety-focused large-language models for medical applications.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$402MKey Investors
AvenirKleiner PerkinsNVentures
2025-11-03Series C· $126M
2025-01-09Series B· $141M
2024-09-19Series A· $17M
Leadership Team
Alex Miller
Co-Founder
Amy McCarthy
Chief Nursing Officer
Recent News
2026-01-11
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