Microsoft · 14 hours ago
Principal Applied Scientist
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
4+ years expMicrosoft is seeking a Principal Applied Scientist with expertise in Machine Learning and related areas to advance Bing and Consumer Copilot. The role involves building production machine learning models, working with state-of-the-art generative models, and analyzing large-scale data to drive impactful business decisions.
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Responsibilities
Building and owning production machine learning models to improve results
Working hands on with SOTA generative models like Qwen, Llama, Mistral, GPT and others, to deliver big impact
Finding insights and forming hypothesis on large-scale data with various machine learning, feature engineering, statistical, and data mining techniques: e.g. regression, classification, NLP, optimization
Professional working experience on prompt engineering with large LLMs like GPT, Gemini, Claude etc
Designing experiments, understanding the resulting data, and producing actionable, trustworthy conclusions from them
Wrangling large amounts of data (think petabytes) using various tools, including open-source ones and your own. All programming languages are welcome, especially Python, C#, R, C++, Java, and SQL
Taking complex problems and the associated data and giving the answers in a concise form to assist senior executives in making key business decisions
Qualification
Required
Bachelor'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 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 3+ years 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 9+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
OR equivalent experience
Company
Microsoft
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