Microsoft · 4 hours ago
Senior Machine Learning Scientist
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
4+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company that is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Machine Learning Scientist to join their Office AI Platform team. In this role, you will research and develop advanced machine learning techniques to enhance productivity tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot, collaborating closely with various teams across the company.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Research and develop an understanding of the state-of-the-art tools, technologies, and methods being used in the research community and product groups
Advance research agenda through one or more projects, yielding new algorithms, prototypes, theories, tools, methods, or collections of data
Drive the team's strategic vision and align it with the overall company objectives
Collaborate with stakeholders to define project goals, success criteria, and deliverables
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
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
4+ years of professional experience in SQL, R, Python, or related tools for large-scale analysis
4+ years leveraging the practical uses of statistics (i.e. experimentation, sampling)
3+ years experience conducting research as part of a research program (in academic or industry settings)
3+ years experience creating publications (e.g., patents, libraries, peer-reviewed academic papers)
3+ years of professional experience as a scientist in data science, machine learning, or AI research
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
4+ years with leveraging passion for & understand the need to deliver the right business impact by working with stakeholders to turn business problems into data analysis questions and unearthing deep insights from data
Experience presenting at conferences or other events in the outside research/industry community as an invited speaker
Have a track record of innovative thinking and problem-solving skills using Big Data
Be self-driven and show the ability to deliver on ambiguous projects with incomplete data
Professional experience with large-scale computing systems like PyTorch, DeepSpeed, Ray and/or similar systems
Demonstrates clear communication and effective interpersonal abilities
Ability to convince other strong personalities of their ideas and communicate complex analysis & insights to a non-technical audience
Experience with large language model, retrieved-augmented generation, and reinforcement learning
Company
Microsoft
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