Microsoft · 13 hours ago
Senior Applied Scientist
Redmond, 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 work with the Microsoft Turing team to deliver innovative machine learning solutions and drive the development of large-scale deep learning models across various Microsoft products and services.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
You will be proficient one or more subareas and gain expertise in a broad area of research, including applicable research techniques. You’ll also gain deep knowledge of a service, platform, or domain, and identify product needs by sharing the latest industry trends and applied technologies
You will review business requirements and incorporate research to meet business goals. You‘ll provide strategic direction for the kinds of data used to solve problems and apply deep subject matter knowledge to support business impact
You will participate in onboarding of team members and assist in developing academics to be members of multidiscipline teams. You’ll identify new research talent to join Microsoft and collaborate with the academic community to develop the recruiting pipeline
You will document work in progress and experimentation results and share findings to promote innovation. You’ll also use your deep understanding of fairness and bias to contribute to ethics and privacy policies related to research processes and data collection
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 of experience coding in C++, C#, C, Java or Python
3+ years experience in applying deep learning techniques and drive end-to-end AI product development (Search, Recommendation, NLP, Document Understanding, etc)
3+ years of experience with common machine learning, deep learning frameworks like Pytorch/Tensorflow
3+ years communicating technical details clearly across organizational boundaries
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 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR equivalent experience
Proficient ability and effectiveness working end-to-end in a challenging technical problem domain (plan, design, execution, continuous release, and service operation)
Experience with shipping internet scale, low latency and high throughput systems AI products
Self-driven, results oriented, high integrity, ability to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes
Customer/End-result/Metrics driven in design and development
Keen ability and motivation to learn, enter new domains, and manage through ambiguity
Proficient publication track records at top conferences like ACL, EMNLP, SIGKDD, AAAI, WSDM, COLING, WWW, NIPS, ICASSP, etc
3+ years experience creating publications (e.g., patents, libraries, peer-reviewed academic papers)
Experience presenting at conferences or other events in the outside research/industry community as an invited speaker
3+ years experience conducting research as part of a research program (in academic or industry settings)
1+ year(s) experience developing and deploying live production systems, as part of a product team
1+ year(s) experience developing and deploying products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping
Benefits
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Company
Microsoft
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