Data & Applied Scientist 2
Microsoft is seeking a Data & Applied Scientist 2 with expertise in Speech processing and Machine/Deep Learning to advance state-of-the-art speech technologies. This role involves developing novel ML and data mining algorithms, designing experiments, and improving speech accuracy and robustness for real-world applications within a multidisciplinary team.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is dramatically transforming people’s work and life now. Speech technology is at the center of this transformation. Speech recognition and text to speech (TTS) are essential pieces to enable intelligent agents in the AI era. Microsoft’s mission is to build world-class speech technologies to break language barriers and empower every person and organization on the earth to achieve more. Our group brings together talents in the areas of signal processing, speech recognition, statistical modelling, and Deep Learning to develop and deliver robust, natural, and scalable speech recognition and text to speech across a rich set of scenarios and languages.
Our team is looking for an experienced data scientist with Speech processing and Applied Machine/Deep Learning in all aspects of spoken language processing. The candidate will work with a multidisciplinary team of engineers, data scientists and product managers to advance the state-of-the-art in the Speech world.
We are looking for a motivated, self-driven ML engineer/scientist to join our mission to change the world with Speech technologies.
Essential attributes and competencies include: Excellence in scientific thinking and execution, ability to drive efficient experiment definition and investigations, solid skill in developing state-of-the-art machine learning and ASR/TTS algorithms, broad scope in solving SR/TTS related engineering problems, and passion for new UI paradigms incorporating speech technologies.
Posted June 1, 2026