Sr. Applied Scientist

Are you looking for an opportunity to solve business-critical problems for Fortune-500 customers globally using cutting-edge AI and ML technology? Do you enjoy tackling technical challenges and producing innovative solutions to real-world problems? Then come join the AI Platform team in Microsoft. You will be working along with the best AI/ML engineering, science, and product talent in the industry and engaging with the largest, most complex customers and ISVs in the world.   

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the explosive growth area in technology relevant to every business in every industry on the planet. In this golden age of AI, Microsoft is committed to bringing state-of-the-art technologies to customers in a responsible, secure, and scalable manner. The innovations in AI are helping enterprises fundamentally transform the face of business, and Microsoft is now a key player and a market leader in this industry. 

The AI Platform organization at Microsoft has the charter to bring the best of our AI & Research assets, tools and cloud infrastructure, rich data, and trusted position together, to deliver AI and ML services and solutions to customers. The mission of the AI Customer Experience Engineering (CxE) team within the AI Platform organization is to co-innovate, incubate, and improve our core AI platform from scenarios utilizing Azure AI Services like Azure OpenAI/GPT, and Azure ML. We do so by building and infusing AI technologies in real world solutions and extending the signals from real world patterns to building robust, scalable AI platform services and products. To achieve this, we are co-innovating AI and ML powered solutions (rich APIs, ML models and end to end services) with our strategic ISVs and Enterprise customers, leveraging many other Azure technologies, including Azure core services and Python/C# microservices.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a passionate, highly motivated, and innovative Applied Scientist with a Software Engineering background to help us build world class AI and ML solutions for our customers and partners involving Language Understanding & Generation, Speech, and similar areas involving technologies such as Azure OpenAI. This role is for an experienced person who is passionate about building complete, highly performant, intelligent, ML models and solutions. The work requires ML DevOps experience and building ML frameworks for evaluation, benchmarking, and testing of LLM models.   

• The role involves a fair amount of customer engagement and solving complex problems with the customer/partner. The ideal candidate is someone who is self-motivated to drive the creation of great enterprise products, and who can collaborate and partner with other product teams, data scientists and engineers, and deal with ambiguity and complexity.  
• Knowledge transfer to partners and community may be required, as well as presenting to customers or at public events.  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Machine Learning or related field.    

• 4+ years of practical experience in Machine Learning techniques & tools, as evidenced by prior projects is required.    

• 2+ years of experience with software design and development using general purpose programming language (Python/Java/C# etc.) and knowledge of data pipelines.  

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer models), BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers models or variants) and Natural Language Processing (NLP)  

• Experience with Azure AI Services is preferred. 

• Experience in dealing with ambiguity, and handling changes in customer requirements. 

Do you have 4+ years of experience in ML techniques and tools for building & fine-tuning models, and evaluating their accuracy? [Yes]  

* Do you have 2+ years of experience in Python, C# or Java? [Yes] 

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. 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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