Microsoft Principal Applied Science Manager 

United States, Washington 

455976272

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 8+ 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 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 5+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of people management 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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical
  • OR Computer Engineering,
  • OR related field AND 12+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical
  • OR Computer Engineering,
  • OR related field AND 8+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of people management experience.
• 7+ years experience developing and deploying products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping.
• 7+ years experience conducting research as part of a research program (in academic or industry settings).
• 3+ years experience presenting at conferences or other events in the outside research/industry community as an invited speaker.
• 5+ 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.
  

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Responsibilities are to lead a team to 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.

• Design, analyze, implement, optimize, profile and experimentally evaluate computer algorithms. Includes knowledge of practical applications of algorithms in software engineering.
• Focus on artificial intelligence and data science including machine learning, data mining, machine vision, search knowledge graphs, or natural language processing.
• Focus on utilizing others' expertise and the ability to involve multiple players (within and outside the organization) in the creation or development of novel products, processes, or research streams.
• Focus on applied science theories and techniques and the ability to use them to further a product or business area, identify opportunities for innovation, and/or transfer technology into products and services.
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