Microsoft's Health and Life Sciences team aims to create an efficient and connected healthcare ecosystem built on the Microsoft Cloud, empowering collaboration, communication, and innovation to improve patient care and experiences for clinicians, staff, and patients. The specific problem this role addresses is advancing voice-driven AI capabilities for Dragon Copilot, transitioning from current speech recognition to future agentic speech-to-speech experiences, and supporting global market expansion.
Requirements
- 2+ years experience developing and maintaining code running in production cloud systems.
- Close familiarity with speech technology and its applications.
- Experience developing research code for the cloud system.
Responsibilities
- Develop the next-generation speech-to-text stack driving Dragon Copilot user experience across different modalities (dictation, conversation, NLI).
- Research into speech-to-speech experiences and build technologies that disrupt the current UX, leveraging state-of-the-art foundation models.
- Contribute to smooth operation of low-level technology services, exposing the technology you developed to other groups.
- Identify pathways towards modernization of existing systems, ensuring a seamless transition towards an agentic speech-to-speech experience.
- Develop best practices in scaling our systems to dozens of markets, playing an active role in building out the deployments.
- Engage in all phases of the development lifecycle, taking new features from conception to production and playing an active role in delivery and live site maintenance.
- Identify innovative developments that optimize user experience and keep system complexity in check, enabling our scaling to millions of healthcare professionals and dozens of markets.
Other
- Master's Degree in relevant field AND 1+ year(s) related-research experience OR equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Doctorate in relevant field OR equivalent experience.
- Experience participating in a top conference in relevant research domain.
