Principal Applied Scientist - Speech
Redmond, WA 
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Posted 12 days ago
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OverviewMicrosoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world. The Artifical Intelligence (AI) Platform organization at Microsoft builds the end-to-end Azure AI stack and is core to Azure's innovation and differentiation, as well as all of Microsoft's flagship products, from Office to Teams, to Xbox. We are the team building Azure OpenAI, Azure Machine Learning (ML), Cognitive Services, and the global Azure AI infrastructure for running the largest AI workloads on the planet. As one of Microsoft's most exciting AI initiatives, speech recognition (SR) is driving the accuracy and robustness of natural user interfaces with natural spoken language and their deep integration to user facing products/services from Microsoft's 1st party or 3rd party application. The Speech Group develops speech recognition features in Enterprise, Entertainment and Desktop and Mobile products including Teams, Office, Bing, and Xbox. In Large Language Mosel (LLM) and Copilot era, more interesting and exciting scenarios are lighted up for Speech applications. As the modeling team in the Speech Group, our team pioneered the industrialized deep learning speech recognition technologies, and contributed key innovations to the speech community. We focus on solving the most challenging industry problems by applying and inventing the best speech recognition algorithms. To this end, we are looking for a Principal Applied Scientist who is passionate about applying the technologies to Microsoft products to benefit millions of users, and pushing the boundary of state-of-the-art speech recognition technologies. Our group, at its core, values individual creativity and passion and is a place where we expect every scientist to continually grow both technically, and personally. We value people who can bring a diverse perspective to our product and where a scientist will not just develop ML models but will have a real meaningful impact on the direction of the product and which features to build. We are building a team where diversity of thought and background is valued as much as technical skills, and where everyone is encouraged to come up with new ideas to make our customers' lives better. You will find great Research & Development (R&D) opportunities on real data sets provided by one of the world's largest speech/online data feedback loop. You must have a track record of sustained thought leadership, leading innovation and creative vision. You are up to the technical & competitive challenges of a fast-moving technology impacting many of Microsoft's key businesses.
ResponsibilitiesLead the effort to solve speech product issues across all processing chains, including model development, test and quality control, deployment and user feedback stages.Apply and invent the state-of-art speech recognition technologies for Microsoft products.Design and implement new speech features in LLM/Copilot eraOther: Embody our Culture and Values

 

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