Microsoft

Senior Applied Scientist

Microsoft$119K — $234K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, or related field with relevant experience
  • 4+ years in predictive analytics or research if holding a Bachelor's
  • 3+ years if holding a Master's
  • 1+ year if holding a Doctorate
  • Preferred: 6+ years in predictive analytics or research with a Master's or 3+ years with a Doctorate
  • Experience in publishing research works like patents or peer-reviewed papers is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Master research areas and techniques to influence product needs
  • Review business/product requirements and provide strategic direction for problem-solving
  • Identify and inspire research talent and advocate for initiatives
  • Document findings and promote innovation in research processes
  • Contribute to ethical guidelines around data collection and privacy policies

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Generous paid time off
  • Ongoing professional development opportunities
  • Collaboration with a high-impact team in a leading tech company
Full Job Description
Overview

Come build the core of Microsoft Copilot for enterprise with Microsoft Turing Team, where you'll join a collaborative group of applied scientists and engineers pushing the frontier of large language models (LLMs) to improve the productivity of hundreds of millions of users around the world.

Our team is responsible for the core systems that power Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat delivering intelligence, quality, and transformative new features. We work at the intersection of research and engineering-advancing orchestrator reasoning, training next-generation models, and shipping impactful, model-driven experiences in Microsoft 365 Copilot.

As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will:
• Evolve our orchestrator to reason more effectively, respond faster, and support new capabilities in multi-modality, agent-based systems, and beyond
• Advance the state of the art in model training-including post-training methods such as fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, high-quality data curation, and experimentation with frontier model training
• Build and deliver model-driven features from concept to production-spanning model development, evaluation, metrics, and A/B testing

Recent launches like Analyst Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot showcase the breadth and depth of impact you'll drive across the stack.

We're hiring applied scientists who are passionate about deep learning, NLP, multimodality model, and model optimization. Come build the next generation of AI with us.

Responsibilities
  • You will master a broad area or research and understand any applicable research techniques. You'll also serve as a team expert on changes in industry trends, products, and other advances, and apply this knowledge to influence product needs.
  • You will review business and product requirement, incorporate research, and provide strategic direction for problem solving. You'll also ensure scientific rigor, support the development of methods, and apply your expertise to support business impact.
  • You will identify and inspire peers and new research talent to join Microsoft, build relationships, and advocate for research initiatives. You'll share research findings through industry outreach, collaborate with the academic community, and help develop the recruiting pipeline.
  • You will document work and experimentation results and share findings to promote innovation. You'll provide guidance when capturing processes and contribute to ethics and privacy policies related to research processes and data collection.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience (e.g., statistics predictive analytics, research)
    • OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
    • OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
    • OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualification:
  • Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical
    • OR Computer Engineering,
    • OR related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
    • OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical
    • OR Computer Engineering,
    • OR related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years experience creating publications (e.g., patents, libraries, peer-reviewed academic papers).


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Applied Sciences IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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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