Microsoft · 2 days ago
Senior Forward Deployed Scientist - CoreAI
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
3+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company committed to delivering state-of-the-art AI technologies to customers. The Senior Forward Deployed Scientist will solve business-critical problems using AI and ML technologies, collaborating with engineering teams to develop innovative solutions for enterprise customers.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Build world class AI and ML solutions for our customers and partners involving GenAI, AI Agents, and fine-tuned and off-the-shelf models
Build complete, highly performant, intelligent, AI models and solutions (requires ML DevOps experience and building ML frameworks for evaluation, benchmarking, and testing of Agentic AI solutions)
Drive the adoption of Agentic AI by developing bespoke AI solutions for top Microsoft customers
Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of innovative solutions that leverage our latest AI Foundry Agentic AI, models, and tools capabilities
Leverage technical skills to architect state-of-the-art solutions that address our customers' business needs, meet their technical requirements, and provide a high degree of reliability and safety
Collaborate with other engineering teams, researchers, and Field engineers to help enterprise customers incorporate cutting-edge AI Foundry platform into their robust end-to-end systems. Drive learnings from customer engagements into improving AI Foundry platform and helping build solution accelerators
Play a critical role in identifying opportunities to innovate and differentiate AI Foundry, while maintaining our best-in-class safety standards
Excellent communication skills to explain and demonstrate complex solutions persuasively to technical and non-technical audiences alike
Act as the primary technical advisor for prospective customers evaluating Agents and Azure Direct Foundry models
Demonstrate how we can address the customer's use cases through proofs of concept
Provide technical guidance on integration and deployment best practices
Partner closely with account executives to understand customer requirements
Configure AI Foundry's capabilities to showcase how it meets the customer's needs, and develop customized pilots and prototypes, as well as evaluation suites to make the case for customer adoption
Travel occasionally to customer sites for workshops, implementation support, and building relationships. Establish a shared vision for creating solutions that enable beneficial and safe AI
Qualification
Required
Doctorate in relevant field
OR Master's Degree in relevant field AND 3+ years related research experience
OR Bachelor's Degree in relevant field AND 4+ years related research experience
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
3+ years of experience with software design and development using general purpose programming language (Python/Java/C# etc.) and knowledge of data pipelines
1+ year of related research experience with AI/ML techniques and tools (e.g., LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, benchmarking and evaluations of models and agentic solutions)
Experience in dealing with ambiguity, and handling changes in customer requirements
Benefits
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Company
Microsoft
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