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Senior Applied Scientist - CoreAI (Speech and Translation)

Posted Oct 21, 2026

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Job function
AI & Data AI Research & Applied Science
Salary
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Location
Redmond, Washington, United States Mountain View, California, United States
Work arrangement
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Experience
Senior Level
Education
Required Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related...

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Role Summary

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The Senior Applied Scientist develops speech modeling technologies for real-world scenarios, with a focus on integrating speech with large language models for multimodal modeling. The role advances speech algorithms and applies and evaluates models in products.

What You'll Do

  • Develop novel speech algorithms for real-world user scenarios, especially speech integration with LLMs for multimodal modeling.
  • Address scalability problems by adjusting to stakeholder needs.
  • Use large-scale computing frameworks, data analysis systems, and modeling environments to improve models.
  • Apply models to real products and verify their effects through iterations.
  • Put multiple models into production and evaluate their performance.
  • Monitor algorithm behavior and performance or accuracy against expected guardrails.

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Qualifications

Required: Bachelor's degree in a listed or related field with 4+ years of related experience, or a master's degree with 3+ years, or a doctorate with 1+ year, or equivalent experience. The role also requires passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred

  • 2+ years experience presenting at conferences such as ASRU, ICASSP, Interspeech, or other research/industry events as an invited speaker.
  • 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, such as patents, libraries, or peer-reviewed academic papers.
  • Master's degree in a listed or related field with 6+ years of related experience, or a doctorate with 3+ years of related experience, or...

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Overview
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.


Responsibilities
Your responsibilities include 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.


Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
  • 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.

 

 

Other Requirements:   

  • 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.  
       
 
Preferred Qualifications:
  • 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 in the research/industry community as an invited speaker.
  • 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.

 

 

 

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.



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