Microsoft · 1 day ago
Principal Applied Scientist
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
4+ years expMicrosoft is a leading tech company focused on empowering every person and organization to achieve more. They are seeking a Principal Applied Scientist to lead innovative AI research projects for developers, collaborating with various teams to enhance AI tools and models.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Lead research projects on the future of AI for developers
Collaborate across disciplines with product teams across Microsoft and Github
Stay up to date with the research literature and product advances in AI for software engineering
Create new datasets from both the world's public code and Microsoft's internal data
Build and manage large-scale ML experiments and models
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience with Machine Learning AND/OR Artificial Intelligence (AI) AND/OR Data/Applied Science
OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience with Machine Learning AND/OR Artificial Intelligence AND/OR Data/Applied Science
OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience with machine learning AND/OR artificial intelligence AND/OR Data/Applied Science
OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Preferred
Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 9+ years related experience with Machine Learning AND/OR Artificial Intelligence (AI) AND/OR Data/Applied Science
Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience with Machine Learning AND/OR Artificial Intelligence (AI) AND/OR Data/Applied Science
2+ years experience in building machine learning and AI for production environment
3+ years experience developing and deploying live production systems, as part of a product team
3+ years experience developing and deploying products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping
Company
Microsoft
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10001+ employees
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