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Deep Learning Research Engineer - Speech & Audio — Microsoft
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Deep Learning Research Engineer - Speech & Audio

business Microsoft location_on Redmond, WA (Hybrid) apartment Hybrid Full Time

Compensation

$160K – 230K/yr

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Published Date

3 weeks ago

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Work Arrangement

Hybrid • Redmond, WA

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Open Positions

2 openings

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Experience Level

Senior

overview Role Overview

About the opportunity

Develop state-of-the-art neural speech synthesis, multi-speaker diarization, and streaming voice translation models.

Microsoft Azure Speech & Cognitive Services is hiring a Deep Learning Research Engineer. You will research and build neural speech codecs, diffusion-based text-to-speech architectures, and zero-shot voice cloning systems powering Azure AI and Windows Copilot experiences globally.
task Core Responsibilities

What you will do

  • check_circle Train modern autoregressive and diffusion models for high-fidelity zero-shot expressive voice synthesis.
  • check_circle Build streaming end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) pipelines with sub-200ms latency.
  • check_circle Implement noise-robust audio feature extractors and self-supervised speech representations (wav2vec, Whisper variants).
  • check_circle Deploy optimized ONNX and TensorRT speech inference engines to Azure cloud endpoints.
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What we are looking for

  • arrow_circle_right MS or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • arrow_circle_right 4+ years training deep learning models specifically for audio processing, speech recognition, or acoustics.
  • arrow_circle_right Strong proficiency with PyTorch, ONNX, C++, and Python audio DSP libraries (torchaudio, librosa).
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Skills & Tech Stack

Speech Recognition TTS PyTorch Deep Learning Audio DSP ONNX
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