Microsoft Senior Applied Scientist - Custom Speech 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

941647434

Speech Group brings together talents in the areas of signal processing, speech modeling, statisticalearning to develop and deliver robust,and scalable speechto drivespeech modeling technologies, which

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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.

• 2+ years’ experience in automatic speech recognition or speech translation

• 2+ years’ experience indeep learning model training

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:

• 1+ year(s) experience developing and deploying products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping.

• year(s)

• years experienceconducting 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.

• years experiencecreating 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.

• years experiencepresenting at conferences such as Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP),Interspeechor other events.

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

Your responsibilities include developing modeling techniques to advance state-of-the-art speech technologies for real world user scenarios. Specifically, you will:

• Advance model capability to adapt to different domains.
• Develop techniques to leverage customer data to improve model quality.
• Develop techniques to adjust model behaviors for different scenarios.