New jobs in Speech & Natural Language

It's been a busy week for me, trying to get things in place before I go to another one-week vacation. (it's kindda nice to take a 2-week vacation one week at a time, because I feel like I'm not terribly behind on my work). Our group has a lot going on, and we're growing all the time, so it's important to keep the pipeline flowing of good people who will fit here. Maybe I'll post more what I mean by "good", but one thing we care a lot about is getting a bunch of people who work well together as a team. Right now we have an extremely good bunch, and I'm particularly proud of our strong set of managers. We now have two jobs posted, and a couple more in the pipeline. You can read the detailed descriptions on-line, but here's my 30-second summary:

 Natural Language Technical PM: Be responsible for some of our advanced text features (like text extraction, summarization, Q&A), working with a development team to define the feature, and work with another group at Microsoft to get it shipped into, say, Office or Windows Vista or MSN.

Speech Content PM: Drive speech recognition for new languages. Define requirements for transcribed audio data and manage the end-to-end process that turns it into a speech model for new languages.

All of our positions are international-centric, so we especially like people who are language fans, either by being multi-lingual, or having spent time outside the United States. Many of our people have advanced degrees in things like Linguistics, Literature (in random languages), and of course Computer Science. A lot of our PhDs came here because they wanted to be more down-to-earth and practical than you get in a research place -- and you certainly get that when your product ships as a component in Windows or Office!