SENIOR ML RESEARCH ENGINEER - SPEECH / AUDIO / GEN-AI

PERMANENT - UP TO £105K PER ANNUM

CONTRACT - Up to £75-£85 per hour Inside IR35

SURREY - HYBRID (3 DAYS ON-SITE)

Our client, a global leader in consumer electronics and advanced technologies, is seeking exceptional and highly motivated Senior Machine Learning Research Engineers to join a growing AI Research team. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge innovation and help shape the next generation of intelligent mobile experiences.

Key Responsibilities

Research, design, and evaluate innovative AI algorithms, with a primary focus on speech and audio processing.
Lead the development of robust, scalable ML software for deployment on Samsung's flagship mobile devices.
Own major components of complex research projects from concept to production readiness.
Implement high-quality, well-documented code, following best practices in software engineering.

Required Skills & Experience

PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
Deep understanding of machine learning and deep learning fundamentals.
Proven experience in speech/audio processing (e.g., ASR, speech enhancement, audio analysis, TTS, NLP).
Experience training models, not only using pre-trained ones.
Ability to modify model architectures, retrain, and adapt research papers into production-ready systems.
Strong grounding in speech/audio ML, deep learning, and ideally generative AI for audio.

*P. S: Company cannot provide visa sponsorship, so only candidates residing in UK and with the existing right to work will be considered for the role.