Microsoft · 12 hours ago
Senior Applied Scientist
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
4+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company that empowers every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. The Senior Applied Scientist will design and lead the implementation of advanced language and multimodal models to enhance the Windows experience, collaborating with top professionals to bring innovative ideas to fruition.
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Responsibilities
Research focusing on foundation models - Designing and training language and multimodal models (and finetunes) with supervised finetuning, distillation, reinforcement learning, low-rank adaptation
Research focusing on environment interaction, policy specification and verification and human intent alignment
Implementation: Train, distill, and finetune language and vision models in PyTorch, DeepSpeed, AzureML stack
Machine learning engineering - Build pipelines to test designs, algorithms and models
Data science - Research and develop synthetic data generation strategies
Proactively follow state of the art research and share latest work, write papers, attend conferences and share knowledge in the wider team
Qualification
Required
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
3+ years experience conducting research as part of a research program in academic or industry settings
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Preferred
2+ years' experience training and/or finetuning large language models, model compression, distillation to small language models
3+ years' experience with Python and deep learning libraries
Experience in large language/multimodal model training, finetuning and distillation
Demonstrated record of publications in top-tier conferences or journals (ICLR, ACL, EMLP, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, TPAMI, etc.)
Experience in creating reusable software libraries and packages
Experience using dataset curation, data generation using prompting state of art LLMs and/or model alignment
Experience with reinforcement learning libraries or formal methods and verification is a plus
Demonstrated ability and passion for incubating new ideas, solving problems, and building working systems
Company
Microsoft
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