Senior Applied Scientist / Principal Applied Scientist
Microsoft
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
- Develop and evaluate ML models using prepared datasets, customer feedback, and novel training/fine-tuning algorithms for language models.
- Write production-quality code, apply debugging best practices, and stay current with industry trends.
- Defining, leading, and helping to conduct research projects that simultaneously advance the state-of-the-art and directly benefit Microsoft’s core productivity products.
- Shape product direction by integrating rigorous scientific methods into the product lifecycle.
- Collaborating and coordinating with people in a range of roles, including researchers, engineers, product managers, designers, and other key product stakeholders. Serving as a bridge between research and product.
- Teaching, guiding, and tutoring colleagues without research backgrounds in state-of-the-art techniques and research best practices.
- Sharing your research with others via a range of means, including publication, to enable others to build on your work and to contribute to the understanding of our products as cutting-edge and science driven.
- Effectively communicating with product leaders (and often Microsoft researchers (MSR)) throughout the planning and execution of applied research projects, which often involves learning and teaching complex concepts.
Qualifications
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Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or related field.
OR equivalent experience in lieu of academic degrees.
At least 5 years of experience in predictive analytics, statistics, or research.
Experience with synthetic data generation and data management for evaluation/training.
At least one year of experience publishing patents or peer-reviewed papers.
Proficiency in English and cross-functional collaboration.
Deep motivation for user-centric AI and interest in human cognition, memory, and AI.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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