Professional Aide

Position Summary(Basic Job Function)

This is a temporary or an on-call position. Provides professional support. Responsibilities may include general business, science, medical, agricultural or other professional support functions. Term: Temps can work two (2) nine (9) month terms with a week break in service in between and at the end of the second term terminate for three (3) months or switch to an on-call. On-Call allowed to work 1039 hours in any twelve (12) month period.

Unit Position Summary

• Design, implement, and optimize deep learning pipelines for robust speech recognition and multimodal systems
• Build production-grade APIs and deployment infrastructure (cloud and edge)
• Develop evaluation frameworks and testbeds for ASR accessibility
• Create data processing pipelines for speech datasets
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary research team to transition prototypes into production systems
• Contribute to research publications and presentations

Desired Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• MS in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent industry experience).
• 3+ years production experience with speech/audio ML systems
• Expert-level Python; strong PyTorch/TensorFlow skills
• Demonstrated experience deploying ML models to production
• Proven track record of delivering reliable, scalable systems
• Strong software engineering practices (version control, testing, documentation)

Preferred:

• Research publications in speech/ML venues
• Experience with modern ASR architectures and streaming or real-time systems
• Cloud deployment experience (AWS/Azure/GCP) and/or edge optimization
• Background in speech accessibility, fairness in ML, or assistive technologies
• Knowledge of speech differences (stuttering, dysarthria, accents)
• Open-source contributions in speech/ML (please provide GitHub link)

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.

Required Application Materials

CV/resume, brief statement describing relevant experience and interest (1 page max), and link to GitHub/portfolio or code samples

Work Hours

STANDARD 8-5

Website

https://engineering.msu.edu/about/departments/ece

Remote Work Statement

MSU strives to provide a flexible work environment and this position has been designated as remote-friendly. Remote-friendly means some or all of the duties can be performed remotely as mutually agreed upon.