Job Category: Research
Location: Egypt, Cairo
Job ID: 764513
Division: Microsoft Research
Location: Egypt, Cairo
Job ID: 764513
Division: Microsoft Research
Data posted : 5 Aug 2011
Title: Researcher
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Lab: Microsoft Innovation Lab, Cairo (CMIC)
CMIC is a Microsoft applied research lab representing the company interest in applied research and development initiatives in the Middle East and Africa. CMIC projects are initiated and self-directed by the staff and are measured by their success in producing new concepts, economic and business value and ultimately in tech transfer into Microsoft products and services.
CMIC is seeking to hire a talented and highly motivated researcher in the areas of speech recognition, speech synthesis, speaker verification and speech understanding.
Job Responsibilities:
Conduct research in the aforementioned areas
Establish strong collaborations with other researchers inside and outside of Microsoft
Show community leadership in the area(s) of expertise
Engage Microsoft product groups on problems of mutual interest to enhance Microsoft’s product offering
Work closely with internal CMIC incubation team to aid their charter of delivering highly innovative solutions.
Qualifications:
PhD degree in areas related to Speech Processing.
Extensive knowledge and experience in at least three of the following areas: speech recognition, speech synthesis, speech coding & compression, speaker verification, and speech understanding. Applications to Arabic Language speech processing will be a plus.
Experience in analyzing and processing of audio data including real time audio streams.
General knowledge about speech industry, trends, technologies and players.
Superior communications skills, both verbal and written.
Hands-on approach to data analysis and a strong focus on quality.
Ability to work independently and in a team to develop innovative solutions.
Programming skills and experience (e.g. C/C++/C#/Speech processing SDKs and toolkits).
