• You have a Master's degree in electrical engineering and information technology, computer science, machine learning, AI or speech and language technology.
• You have proven expertise in one or more relevant domains, including speech recognition, speech processing, computer-assisted pronunciation training and human-computer interaction. 
• You have demonstrable affinity for academic research, as demonstrated by publications and/or presentations. 
• You are interested in interdisciplinary research and are able to communicate across domain boundaries.
• You have the ability and experience to work independently within the larger context of an interdisciplinary team.
• You have Python and UNIX skills.
• You have proven experience using language and speech toolkits (Kaldi, Whisper, wav2vec2.0, Praat, TensorFlow, Pytorch, NLTK or spaCy).
• You have other software development skills: API development, web/app software development, control version systems.
• You are fluent in spoken and written English. 

Fixed-term contract: You will be employed for an initial period of 18 months, after which your performance will be evaluated. If the evaluation is positive, the contract will be extended by 2.5 years (4 year contract) or 3.5 years (5 year contract).

• It concerns an employment for 0.8 (5 year contract) - 1.0 FTE (4 year contract).
• The gross starting salary amounts to €2,770 per month based on a 38-hour working week, and will increase to €3,539 in the fourth year (salary scale P).
• You will receive 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus.
• You will be employed for an initial period of 18 months, after which your performance will be evaluated. If the evaluation is positive, the contract will be extended by 2.5 years (4 year contract) or 3.5 years (5 year contract).
• You will be able to use our Dual Career and Family Care Services. Our Dual Career and Family Care Officer can assist you with family-related support, help your partner or spouse prepare for the local labour market, provide customized support in their search for employment and help your family settle in Nijmegen.
• Working for us means getting extra days off. In case of full-time employment, you can choose between 30 or 41 days of annual leave instead of the legally allotted 20.

Work and science require good employment practices. This is reflected in Radboud University's primary and secondary employment conditions. You can make arrangements for the best possible work-life balance with flexible working hours, various leave arrangements and working from home. You are also able to compose part of your employment conditions yourself, for example, exchange income for extra leave days and receive a reimbursement for your sports subscription. And of course, we offer a good pension plan. You are given plenty of room and responsibility to develop your talents and realise your ambitions. Therefore, we provide various training and development schemes.

The Faculty of Arts is committed to knowledge production with a significant scientific and social impact. With over 500 academic and support staff, we teach and conduct research in the fields of history and art, languages and cultures, and linguistics and communication, using innovative methodologies and working in close collaboration with each other. Our research is embedded in two research institutes: the Centre for Language Studies (CLS) and the Radboud Institute for Culture & History (RICH). We currently have approximately 2,500 students, enrolled in three departments: the Department of History, Art History and Classics, the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, and the Department of Language and Communication. We aim to contribute to a more sustainable and inclusive world, which is why we especially seek applications from candidates who bring diverse perspectives, backgrounds and skills that will be assets to our study programmes and research profiles.

Context at Radboud University: Working on the NWO-funded research project 'Responsible AI for Voice Diagnostics' led by Dr Cristian Tejedor-García, you will be part of a new and proactive group of six PhD candidates and several postdoctoral researchers and professors, based at the Centre for Language Studies. The project leverages Radboud AI, Radboud's campus-overarching, interdisciplinary AI initiative, connecting the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, and the Radboud university medical center. The project has links with the Radboud Healthy Data programme, the National AI Education Lab (NOLAI), the AI Hub East Netherlands through SME Datalab-East, relevant health-related Innovation Centres for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI) labs, and the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS). The project addresses the challenges related to machine learning, natural language processing, data dependencies, quality and enrichment, the ethical dimensions of AI, and regulatory requirements for AI.

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We are keen to meet critical thinkers who want to look closer at what really matters. People who, from their expertise, wish to contribute to a healthy, free world with equal opportunities for all. This ambition unites more than 24,000 students and 5,600 employees at Radboud University and requires even more talent, collaboration and lifelong learning. You have a part to play!