Microsoft
Senior Applied Scientist - CoreAI (Speech and Translation)
$120K–$304K
Redmond, WA +1 · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Location
- Redmond, WA
Mountain View, CA - Experience
- Bachelor’s: 4+ years; master’s: 3+ years; doctorate: 1+ year; or equivalent experience. Preferred qualifications also list alternate experience thresholds, including master’s plus 6+ years or doctorate plus 3+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent experience.
About the job
Develops and deploys advanced speech technologies for real-world scenarios, particularly speech integrated with LLMs for multimodal modeling.
What you'll do
- Develop novel speech algorithms and improve models using large-scale computing, data analysis, and modeling environments.
- Deploy and evaluate models in products, iterating on performance and monitoring against expected behavior, performance, and accuracy guardrails.
- Address scalability challenges in response to stakeholder needs.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in a listed or related field plus 4+ years of related experience, or a master’s degree plus 3+ years, or a doctorate plus 1+ year, or equivalent experience.
- Meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Nice to have
- Experience presenting as an invited speaker at speech or other research/industry conferences.
- Experience in research, product/system development and deployment, live production systems, or creating publications.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary); USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (base salary); USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (base salary)
Tools
LLM
AI focus
Speech modeling and multimodal modeling that integrates speech with LLMs; develops, deploys, and evaluates speech algorithms and models.
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