Senior Machine Learning Engineer Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)

About the role:

At Cresta, we are dedicated to building state-of-the-art Machine Learning systems that power real-time, intelligent customer interactions. Our team develops models and platforms that process large-scale, multimodal data—especially speech and text—to extract meaning, improve quality, and deliver actionable insights at scale. By combining applied research with strong engineering discipline, we enable organizations to continuously improve AI-driven experiences in production environments. A key focus of this role is advancing model evaluation, measurement, and quality improvements, with particular emphasis on Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and downstream NLP systems. You will design rigorous evaluation frameworks, define quality metrics, and drive systematic improvements to model accuracy, robustness, and reliability. You will work closely with applied researchers, product teams, and platform engineers to ensure that model performance improvements translate into measurable business impact. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will be at the forefront of applying modern ML and speech/NLP techniques to production systems. Your work will focus on improving ASR quality, building scalable evaluation and benchmarking infrastructure, and enabling continuous model iteration through data-driven insights.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain evaluation frameworks to measure model accuracy, robustness, latency, and real-world performance across ASR and NLP systems.
• Lead ASR quality improvement efforts, including error analysis, dataset curation, metric definition (e.g., WER and task-specific metrics), and model iteration.
• Analyze large-scale speech and text data to identify failure modes and drive targeted model and data improvements.
• Develop, train, and deploy machine learning models for speech recognition and downstream tasks such as classification, entity recognition, information extraction, and structured insight generation.
• Partner with applied research to translate experimental improvements into production-ready systems.