Microsoft · 1 day ago
Senior Applied Scientist - CoreAI Speech
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
4+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company that empowers every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. They are seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to innovate and advance state-of-the-art speech modeling technologies, impacting millions of users through the development of novel speech algorithms.
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Responsibilities
Develop novel speech algorithms to advance state-of-the-art speech technologies for real world user scenarios, especially in integrating speech with LLM for multimodal modeling
Help address scalability problems by adjusting to stakeholder needs
Work with large-scale computing frameworks, data analysis systems, and modeling environments to improve models
Applies the model to real products, and then verifies effects through iterations
Experimenting by putting multiple models in production and evaluating their performance
Continuing to monitor how algorithm performs against expected behaviors and performance or accuracy guardrails
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience (e.g., statistics predictive analytics, research)
OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
+ OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Preferred
1+ year(s) experience developing and deploying products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping
1+ year(s) experience developing and deploying live production systems, as part of a product team
3+ years experience conducting research as part of a research program (in academic or industry settings)
Experience presenting at conferences or other events in the outside research/industry community as an invited speaker
3+ years experience creating publications (e.g., patents, libraries, peer-reviewed academic papers)
Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR equivalent experience
2+ years experience presenting at conferences such as Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Interspeech or other events
Company
Microsoft
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