Ordinate Corporation is the world's only company providing automated spoken language testing, including reading tests for children and other speech diagnostic tools. Using our own speech recognition technologies, we provide services that extract information such as language proficiency (comprehension, fluency, pronunciation, sentence structure, vocabulary) over the telephone or via the Internet. Our system is used by educational institutions to test incoming students, by companies to pre-screen employees for spoken language abilities, and by the US Department of Education and other government agencies for widespread language proficiency testing. We are committed to developing systems and instruments that use new technologies to create the most accurate and efficient language assessments available.

Ordinate provides the fun atmosphere of a small, growing company where there is freedom to learn, expand, and make an impact. We're located one minute's walk from the CalTrain station and downtown Menlo Park's restaurants and cafes.

Responsible for advancing the state of the company's ASR technology while working with the sales, marketing and test development teams to solve practical problems from the field. The position demands a person who has broad interests and is motivated to design and implement improvements to the company's system. Opportunities for further research in applicable areas are available.

Driving the R&D cycle (building language models, training acoustic models, building statistical models for measuring performance, etc.) for automated grading of different test systems. Designing new algorithms as required (i.e., improving the grading performance); conducting data analysis; writing scripts and tools to support the sales, marketing and test development teams; maintaining the grading system.

MS with 0-2 years experience or ABD with 0-2 years experience in statistical modeling, artificial intelligence, or Speech Recognition. MS or ABD in EE, CS, or Computational Linguistics, preferred. Ph.D. in EE, CS, or Computational Linguistics a plus.

• Knowledge of speech recognition or probabilistic systems, statistical models
• Background in statistical modeling and machine learning
• Experience programming in C/C++
• Proficiency with SQL, Perl and Matlab
• Demonstrate a willingness to learn and apply a wide range of technologies
• Experience with linguistic and statistical analysis of natural language would be highly desirable.
• Experience in designing and running ASR experiments a plus
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Ordinate offers competitive salaries and relocation benefits. Ordinate is an equal opportunity employer and drug free work place.