Microsoft Looking For Senior Researcher at Bellevue, WA Full Time

Microsoft significantly expanded its efforts in the intelligent cloud, and Microsoft AI Cognitive Services is at the forefront! The Cognitive Services Research team is looking for an extremely talented and highly motivated researcher to work on cutting edge research in artificial intelligence (AI) focusing one of the following areas: Automatic Speech Recognition, Computer vision, Knowledge and Natural Language Processing, and deep learning. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated track record of broadly recognized research publications at leading conferences. In the case of industry candidates, you will also have demonstrated the ability to take research results and transfer them into commercial products.

We are looking for you if you:
Have a solid background in speech, computer vision, natural language processing, or machine learning

Are passionate about incubating new ideas, solving problems, and building working systems.

Are self-motivated, proven collaborators, good communicators, attentive to details, and keen to learn.

Have practical experience working in an academic or industrial research environment.

Collaborate with our development team, often serving as a bridge between the research team and the product group.

Responsibilities

The mission of our group is to make fundamental contributions to advancing the state-of-the-art in speech, computer vision, and language technology both within Microsoft and in the external research community. As a researcher, you will:

Collaborate with world-class researchers and engineers to develop cutting-edge algorithms to create innovative applications and solutions, solving real-world challenges.

Conduct influential research published in top-tier venues such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICASSP, Interspeech, ASRU, SLT, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, ICLR, NIPS, SIGDIAL.

Experiment with methods to improve and fine-tune state-of-the-art deep learning models

Develop prototype software based on research ideas to stimulate new thinking, and to aid the transition of research into products. Contribute with research ideas, as it complements existing research concepts and algorithms.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
Ph. D. in Computer Science (or related discipline) or Masters and 2+ years relevant experience

5+ years of research or engineering experience in speech, computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning, optimization, or other subfields of artificial intelligence.

2+ years of hands-on experience in deep Learning using frameworks such as PyTorch, C++, or TensorFlow.

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 after.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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