Senior Applied Scientist

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

Microsoft is the leader in Healthcare AI. Dragon Copilot helps physicians, nurses, radiologists, and other healthcare professionals save time and improve outcomes for patients around the world. In this position you will drive core accuracy improvements to Dragon Copilot for nurses, including flowsheet population and note generation from nurse/patient conversations.
We are seeking an Applied Scientist who is curious and self-driven, with strong research skills and comfortable defining a path towards high-level goals. You will analyze data, evaluate new ideas, ship production code and models, and generalize learnings for the broader product.
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Requirements

• 4+ years of data science experience
• 4+ years of Python experience
• Doctorate or Master's in Computer Science or related field

Nice To Haves

• 2+ years of experience in healthcare AI or related field
• 2+ years of experience training/fine tuning AI/ML models, preferably LLMs/SLMs.
• 2+ years of experience building Generative AI pipelines, e.g. with RAG (Retrieval augmented generation).
• 2+ years of experience with Azure Machine Learning (AML) pipelines
• A record of publications in scientific venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, CVPR).

Responsibilities

• Independently works to create product impact. Identifies approach, and applies, improves, or creates a research-backed solution (e.g., novel, data driven, scalable, extendable) to positively impact accuracy of Microsoft Dragon Copilot for nurses.
• Brings new technology and approaches into production by applying long-term research efforts to solve immediate product needs.
• Establishes collaborative relationships with relevant product and business groups inside or outside of Microsoft and provides expertise or technology to create business impact. Takes initiative and drives activities such as technology transfers attempts, standards organizations, filing patents, authoring white papers, developing or maintaining tools/services for internal Microsoft use, or consulting for product or business groups. May publish research to promote receiving new intellectual property for business impact.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees