Monday, February 18, 2013

Large-Scale Audio Indexing Researcher / Engineer

IRCAM is hiring a full-time researcher/engineer for an 18-month contract beginning in March 2013.

Position description

The hired Engineer/Researcher will be in charge of the development of the framework for scalable storage, management and access of distributed data (audio and meta-data). He/she will be also in charge of the development of scalable search algorithms. She/he will be required to participate in all activities related to the project (evaluation, meetings, specifications).

Required Experiences and Skills

• High skill in database management systems
• High skill in indexing technologies (hash-table, m-trees, etc.)
• Good knowledge of Linux, Windows, MacOS environments
• High productivity, methodical works, excellent programming style

Introduction to IRCAM

IRCAM is a non-profit organization that is associated to the Centre Pompidou (Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou). Its missions comprise research, production, and education related to contemporary music and its relation to science and technology. Within the R&D department specialized teams are conducting research and development in the areas of acoustics, sound signal processing, interaction, computer music and musicology.

Salary

According to background and experience

Applications

Please send an application letter together with your resume and any suitable information addressing the above issues preferably by email to: peeters(at)ircam.fr with a copy to vinet(at)ircam.fr and roebel(at)ircam.f.

Friday, February 15, 2013

Large-Scale Audio Indexing Researcher/Engineer

IRCAM is hiring a full-time researcher/engineer for an 18-month contract beginning in March 2013.

Position

The person hired will be in charge of the research and development of scalable technologies for supervised learning (i.e. scaling GMM, PCA or SVM algorithms) to be applied to millions of annotated data. He/she will also be in charge of the application of the developed technologies for the training of large-scale music genre and music mood models and their application to large-scale music catalogues. She/he will be required to participate in all activities related to the project (evaluation, meetings, specifications).

Required Experience and Skills

• High skill in audio indexing and data mining
• Previous experience into scalable machine-learning models
• High skill in Matlab programming, skills in C/C++ programming
• Skill in audio signal processing (spectral analysis, audio-feature extraction, parameter estimation)
• Good knowledge of Linux, Windows, MacOS environments
• High productivity, methodical works, excellent programming style

Salary

According to background and experience

Applications

Please send an application letter together with your resume and any suitable information addressing the above issues preferably by email to: peeters(at)ircam.fr with a copy to vinet(at)ircam.fr and roebel(at)ircam.fr.