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Software Engineer II - Voice Agent

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Beijingfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Role focused on designing, building, and integrating voice agent technologies within the Microsoft Foundry Agent Platform, including ASR/TTS, real-time pipelines, talking avatars, and leveraging generative AI to deliver end-to-end voice agent solutions across Microsoft products and partners.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build voice and speech technologies (e.g., ASR, TTS, real-time interaction pipelines) that power voice agents within the Microsoft Foundry Agent Platform
  • Implement and evolve voice agent capabilities, including real-time speech processing, multimodal orchestration, and agent runtime integration
  • Develop and integrate talking avatar technologies, supporting both zero-shot and customized experiences
  • Apply and adapt modern generative AI technologies (including diffusion and language modeling) where appropriate, with an emphasis on engineering robustness and system integration
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate voice agents, speech services, and avatar components into platforms, SDKs, and end-to-end applications
  • Continuously improve system latency, quality, scalability, and reliability in real-world deployments
  • Stay current with industry and research advancements in voice AI, agentic systems, and generative technologies, and translate them into practical solutions
  • Contribute to engineering excellence through design reviews, code reviews, and shared best practices

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field AND 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Strong coding skills in one or more languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • Experience working with machine learning–powered systems (model development experience is a plus but not required)

Skills

Required:Programming languagesMachine learning systemsVoice technologies
Nice to have:Avatar technologiesGenerative AICross-functional collaboration
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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