Principal Applied Scientist

Microsoft Teams is the hub for teamwork that integrates all the people, content, and tools your team needs to be more engaged and effective. It is core to Microsoft’s modern work, modern life and modern education value prop. We are reinventing the way people communicate and work together across the globe.

We are looking for a Principal Applied Scientist for the Microsoft Teams Calling, Meeting and Devices group.

This person will collaborate with a multi-functional group to deliver next generation innovations and experiences leveraging, fine tuning and prompt engineering foundation models. Partner with product and engineering teams to invent and deliver on the future for Microsoft CoPilot and other generative artifical intelligence (AI) products. 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Feature development including technical designing, coding, validation and releasing to production.
• Work closely with Program Managers and Designers to create engineering plans including timeframes, milestones and quality, reliability and performance goals.
• Collaborate across broader team to identify dependencies, bottlenecks and opportunities for re-use or efficiency improvements.
• Provide constructive feedback, formulate goals and help the team achieve the goals.
• Own scenarios end-to-end and maintain high level of quality, reliability and performance.
• Encourage innovation across all stages of product lifecycle.
• Conduct applied science experiments, create and validate metrics, work with machine learning (ML) pipeline and modeling algorithm in the area of Large Language Models (LLMs), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Retrieval, and Machine Learning.
• Develop and deploy conversational and language understanding models at scale.

• Follow and advance best practices for Responsible AI and Privacy Preserving Machine Learning.

• Collaborate closely with Microsoft Research, Microsoft AI groups, Microsoft Azure, AI platform teams, and product teams to create the next generation of AI innovation in our products and services.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 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.
• 1+ years of experience in AI for web/frontend technologies.
• 4+ years of experience in Applied ML and Product development.
• Recent experience working with LLM or NLP.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with software development lifecycle and agile methodologies.
• Experience with commercial product development with a focus on user experiences.

Applied Sciences IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 29, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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