Microsoft · 19 hours ago
Senior Applied Scientist
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
4+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company, and they are seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to join the Microsoft 365 Copilot Reasoning Science team. The role involves defining and managing experiments, influencing leadership through quality summaries, and contributing to strategic planning and team development within the applied science culture.
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Responsibilities
Defining and managing experiments from inception to shipment, creating the requisite metrics, ML pipelines, algorithms. Owning problems end-to-end and being willing to pick up whatever knowledge you’re missing to get the job done
Influencing senior leadership and partner teams through quality written and oral summaries of work in progress and experimentation results
Building tools to accelerate your own (and your teammates’) workflows, but only when off-the-shelf solutions won’t do
Contributing to strategic planning and long-term technical roadmaps, incorporating latest research to meet business goals
Contributing to the growth and development of the team’s engineers and applied scientists. Identifying new research talent to join Microsoft and collaborating with the academic community to develop the recruiting pipeline
Supporting and developing a thriving applied science culture within MSAI to encourage experimentation, scientific process, and innovation
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
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
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
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)
Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
3+ years experience creating publications (e.g., patents, libraries, peer-reviewed academic papers)
3+ year(s) building and maintaining production machine learning systems at internet scale
1+ year(s) experience in working with multidisciplinary, geo-distributed team
Demonstrated experience owning end-to-end machine learning and software projects, including gathering requirements and feedback, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, producing technical designs, shipping to production, and iterating on systems post-launch
Ability to thrive in dynamic environments, especially where priorities may shift and project definitions evolve
Proficiency in Python and LLM prompting
Company
Microsoft
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