Microsoft · 3 days ago
Applied Scientist, Copilot Shared Services
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
4+ years expMicrosoft is an innovative company looking to advance their Copilot Shared Services for Office Apps. The Senior Applied Scientist will work on improving personalized experiences by leveraging AI technology, collaborating with various teams to drive advancements in product development.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Define, lead, and help to conduct research projects and workstreams that directly benefit our customers, drive positive usage, and improve Microsoft’s core productivity products
Formulation of advanced prompt engineering, selecting and fine-tuning LLMs, designing and managing evaluation datasets, develop concepts for more efficient and accurate solutions, and researching and assessing different architectures and approaches from across the M365 ecosystem
Collaborate and coordinate with people in a range of roles, including researchers, engineers, product managers, designers, and product leaders and other key product stakeholders
Generate ML / AI based models that can be shipped to customers to improve their experience and used internally to generate data insights to shape the features and products we ship to customers
Teach, guide, and tutor colleagues without research backgrounds in state-of-the-art techniques and research best practices
Many of the things you will try should lead to unexpected outcomes. You must be comfortable learning from experience, developing new hypotheses, and iterating
Share project outcomes and insights 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
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
1+ year(s) experience developing and deploying products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping
3+ years of experience in machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and/or statistics
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Preferred
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 4+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR equivalent experience
Ability to apply research, preferring the large-scale application of new ideas over theory and prototypes
Experience working on successful applied research projects in industry environments
Experience coding and hands-on experience working with foundation models
Demonstrated collaboration and communication skills, both within-team and cross-team, and experience working through problems in ambiguous environments adapting to new research challenges as technology develops
Company
Microsoft
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