Senior Research Engineer (AI Speech Enhancement)

Location: Ulm, Germany

Company

hirify.global develops AI-powered voice and speech technologies for automotive applications, serving leading automakers worldwide.

What you will do

• Develop robust DNN-based speech enhancement solutions for automotive, healthcare, robotics, and home entertainment applications.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable tools and workflows for training and evaluating DNN models.
• Create proof-of-concepts and participate in customer demonstrations to support business development.
• Integrate new technologies into production-ready products and solutions.
• Analyze emerging technologies and competitive offerings.
• Mentor interns and master’s students and contribute to patent applications.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Communications Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of professional experience.
• Proven experience developing and training machine learning models, especially deep neural networks.
• Strong expertise in digital signal processing, particularly speech and audio processing.
• Solid programming skills in C and Python, plus understanding of software development methodologies and best practices.
• Written and spoken English and German are required.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on voice and AI technologies for the automotive industry.
• Collaborate with a global team focused on innovation and production solutions.
• Contribute to meaningful products used across more than 500 million vehicles.
• Follow workplace security, compliance, data privacy, and information security procedures.