Microsoft's Health and Life Sciences (HLS) team is dedicated to empowering healthcare organizations to achieve their goals and improve patient care. We aim to create an efficient and connected healthcare ecosystem by bringing the healthcare ecosystem together, empowering everyone across the healthcare journey to collaborate, communicate, and innovate together to provide better experiences for their workforces and patients or members alike.

We are seeking a highly motivated and passionate expert in speech recognition technology to join our speech recognition applied research team. As a Senior Applied Research Scientist, you will work with a multi-disciplinary and highly motivated team of applied scientists and engineers to develop and improve production-ready HLS ASR technology.

• Develop and improve production-ready HLS ASR technology
• Apply state-of-the-art end-to-end ASR modeling techniques
• Design and develop ASR systems for HLS platform and solutions
• Understand, select, and prepare data for ASR model training and testing
• Implement tools for ASR model training and testing
• Design and run ASR experiments to further improve HLS ASR technology
• Collaborate with a team of highly skilled speech recognition experts, document, present, and discuss your applied research results

• Master's degree in computer science, mathematics, or physics or related field AND extensive experience in machine learning (applied) research (preferably speech recognition or natural language understanding)
• OR Doctorate in machine learning (preferably speech recognition or natural language processing) or in a field with intense machine learning application
• Previous experience with coding in Python
• Experience in working with machine learning backends (preferably PyTorch)
• Excellent English communication and presentation skills

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements