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, which empowers everyone across the healthcare journey to collaborate, communicate, and innovate together to provide better experiences for their workforces and patients or members alike.The Platform research organization within HLS has an opportunity for a Senior Applied Scientist in the speech recognition applied research team. In this position, you will work with a multi-disciplinary and highly motivated team of applied scientists and engineers.The team develops speech recognition technology for the next generation HLS Speech-to-Text platform and solutions.Responsibilities Develop and improve production-ready HLS ASR technologyApply state-of-the-art end-to-end ASR modelling techniquesDesign and develop ASR systems for HLS platform and solutionsUnderstand, select and prepare data for ASR model training and testingImplement tools for ASR model training and testingDesign and run ASR experiments to further improve HLS ASR technologyCollaborate with a team of highly skilled speech recognition experts, document, present and discuss your applied research resultsQualifications Required/Minimum Qualifications: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 applicationPrevious experience with coding in PythonExperience in working with machine learning backends (preferably PyTorch)Excellent English communication and presentation skillsOther 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/Additional Qualifications:Publication of scientific research papersExperience with the Azure ecosystemExperience with large-scale data processingSome experience and good understanding of C++The salary for this role is starting from 75,400 euros per annum depending on experience. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.#J-18808-Ljbffr
