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Senior Applied Scientist

Microsoft

Mountain View, California, United StatesOn Site

Original Job Summary

About the Role

The Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft’s Core Search and AI team (Bing) will build the next generation of search using advanced AI technologies, especially large language models, at scale.

Responsibilities

Work on the largest machine learning models at Microsoft by volume. Solve practical AI at scale challenges including:

  • Delivering high quality search results from a massive document corpus
  • Query and document understanding
  • Generating summarization snippets for ranking
  • AI search grounding and related areas

Team and Collaboration

Collaborate with passionate engineers, scientists, and program managers. Work closely with groups including Microsoft Research and integrate AI solutions into products like Office and Azure.

Mission

Contribute to Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and organization on the planet with advanced AI to make the world smarter and more productive.

Key skills/competency

  • Machine Learning
  • Large Language Models
  • Search
  • AI
  • Document Understanding
  • Summarization
  • Ranking
  • Collaboration
  • Scalability
  • Cloud

How to Get Hired at Microsoft

🎯 Tips for Getting Hired

  • Research Microsoft culture: Study their mission, values, and news.
  • Customize your resume: Highlight AI and search expertise.
  • Network effectively: Connect with current employees on LinkedIn.
  • Prepare technically: Practice scalable machine learning challenges.

📝 Interview Preparation Advice

Technical Preparation

Review transformer model architectures
Practice scalable machine learning algorithms
Study distributed computing methods
Learn Azure cloud deployment basics

Behavioral Questions

Describe a challenging team project.
Explain your conflict resolution experience.
Share a time you adapted to change.
Discuss a situation demonstrating leadership.