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Senior Applied Scientist and Principal Applied Scientist

United States, Redmond Employment contract 119800.00 USD / Year · Job Posted June 09, 2026
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The Core AI Speech Group brings together talents in the areas of signal processing, speech modeling, statistical modeling and deep learning to develop and deliver robust, natural and scalable speech technologies, across a rich set of scenarios and languages. As a science team in the Speech Group, we industrialized deep learning speech technologies and contributed key innovations to the speech community. We work on all kinds of end-to-end speech technologies, targeting the most challenging problems by inventing new algorithms. To that end, we welcome a Senior Applied Scientist who is passionate at innovating the state-of-the-art speech modeling technologies, which impact millions of users. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Job Responsibility

  • Developing 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
  • Helps address scalability problems by adjusting to stakeholder needs
  • Works 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
  • Experiments by putting multiple models in production and evaluating their performance. Continues to monitor how algorithm performs against expected behaviors and performance or accuracy guardrails

Requirements

  • 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. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Nice to have

  • Bachelor'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 Master'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 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
  • 3+ years experience creating publications (e.g., patents, libraries, peer-reviewed academic papers)
  • 1+ year(s) experience presenting at conferences or other events in the outside research/industry community as an invited speaker
  • 3+ years experience conducting research as part of a research program (in academic or industry settings)
  • 1+ year(s) experience developing and deploying live production systems, as part of a product team
  • 1+ year(s) experience developing and deploying products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping
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