Applied Scientist

About the Applied Scientist Role

The M365 Core organization at Microsoft is seeking Mid Level and Senior Applied Scientist professionals. You will work to advance artificial intelligence, machine learning, and model optimization within Microsoft 365's core services.

Responsibilities

• Conduct R&D to advance model training and evaluation.
• Fine-tune large language models on tenant data.
• Collaborate with engineers and researchers on deep learning and NLP.
• Measure and analyze model performance using statistical methodologies.
• Promote a culture of inclusion, respect, and accountability.

Qualifications

Possess a Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctorate in relevant fields, or equivalent experience. Candidates must have demonstrated expertise in training and fine tuning AI/ML models (preferably LLMs), productizing ML/AI components at internet scale, and proficiency in a programming language such as Python.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in end-to-end problem solving, building Generative AI pipelines, and creating publications such as patents or academic papers.

Key skills/competency

• machine learning
• deep learning
• LLM
• NLP
• model optimization
• AI
• predictive analytics
• statistics
• Python
• research