Principal Applied Scientist

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

19h

About The Position

Are you passionate about shaping the future applications of AI and empowering millions of users to unlock their full potential? The Notebooks team is at the forefront of an exciting transformation with Copilot Notebooks: intelligent, dynamic notebooks infused with powerful AI that act as a true "second brain." Imagine effortlessly capturing ideas, intuitively understanding complex information, and seamlessly taking informed action. This is the heart of our mission.
As a Principal Applied Scientist working in Notebooks team, your core mission is to deliver high quality AI-scenarios for Copilot Notebooks. You’ll be responsible for adopting the latest ML technologies, prompt tuning, measuring the impact of models with diverse Eval sets, and working with product teams to design AI-powered experiences. We are looking for candidates who are creative, self-driven, curious, people-oriented, able to mentor and comfortable defining a path through ambiguity towards high-level goals.
This opportunity will allow you to work in an exciting and fast-paced environment, collaborating closely with teams across multiple organizations and ship products globally. You’ll have access to the latest models, research and ML techniques that you can bring to the product teams, as well as opportunities to contribute back to the scientific community (via presentations etc).
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.

Requirements

• 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+ year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
• OR equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of experience in machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, prompt tuning and/or statistics.
• 5+ years of experience in end-to-end development for building, shipping, and iterating on high-impact ML models.
• Experience shipping high-quality products at scale.
• Proficiency in Python and familiarity with coding.
• Proficiency in using ML libraries from sources such as Hugging Face.
• Published papers in reputed ML conferences and/or contributions to open-source ML projects.
• Effective communication skills, maintaining customer experience and quality along with the ability to work across groups and disciplines.
• Ability to quickly ramp up on various domains within Machine Learning.

Responsibilities

• Work with product teams in designing AI-powered experiences.
• Prompt tuning various multi-modal models to satisfy quality and latency constraints.
• Come up with evaluation techniques, datasets and metrics to measure the impact of the latest models on product scenarios.
• Collaborate with research teams to adopt the latest ML technologies into the product.
• Push the boundaries of AI innovation by partnering with platform teams and working with frontier models.
• Foster a healthy and inclusive team environment, provide technical guidance to other applied scientists, and act as a mentor.
• Participate in onboarding of junior team members and assist in developing academics to the members of multidiscipline teams. You’ll identify new research talent to join Microsoft and collaborate with the academic community to develop the recruiting pipeline.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal