Microsoft
Senior Applied Scientist - CoreAI Voice Agent
$120K–$261K
Redmond, WA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Nov 2, 2026
- Experience
- Required: 4+ years with a bachelor’s degree, 3+ years with a master’s, or 1+ year with a doctorate; equivalent experience accepted. Preferred alternatives: 6+ years with a master’s or 3+ years with a doctorate; also 3+ years developing and deploying products or systems across the product cycle.
- Education
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field; or equivalent experience.
- Visa sponsorship
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About the job
Develops and deploys speech-generation algorithms and models for scalable, natural, expressive, and multilingual voice-agent applications.
What you'll do
- Design speech algorithms and address scalability challenges based on stakeholder requirements.
- Use large-scale computing, data analysis, and modeling tools to improve model performance and efficiency; deploy models and refine them using empirical results.
- Evaluate models in live scenarios and monitor deployed algorithms for accuracy, expected behavior, and performance guardrails.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in a listed or related field plus 4+ years of related experience, or a master’s plus 3+ years, or a doctorate plus 1+ year, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet required Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Nice to have
- 3+ years developing and deploying products or systems across multiple product-cycle stages, from ideation to shipping.
- Master’s degree in a listed or related field plus 6+ years of related experience, or doctorate plus 3+ years, or equivalent experience.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary) in the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area.
AI focus
Develops deep-learning-based speech and audio models for natural, expressive, multilingual speech generation and conversational AI voice agents.
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