Senior Applied Scientist

Microsoft Corporation • Redmond, WA

46d

About The Position

Do you want to be part of a team which delivers innovative products and machine learning solutions across Microsoft to hundreds of millions of users every month? Does the opportunity to join a fast-paced, high-visibility, diverse team in a highly competitive market sound exciting to you? If so, this Senior Applied Scientist role with the Microsoft Turing team may be a great fit for you!

The Microsoft Turing team is an innovative research and engineering team working on state-of-the-art deep learning models to power end user experiences across the company. Senior Applied Scientists and software engineers in the Turing team work together to push the boundaries of large-scale deep learning models on Turing's world class distributed training infrastructure. The team is pioneering search and the core copilot experiences across Microsoft's ecosystem.

In addition to ensuring that Microsoft is pushing the state-of-the-art large-scale models, the Turing team also works on improving experiences across Microsoft's products and services by working on high value scenarios. The Turing team has shipped capabilities across all of many Microsoft scenarios including M365 Copilots, Bing Chat,  semantic search for enterprise and knowledge management, quick reply on Outlook, Smart Compose features in Word, image enhancement models, image search models,  as well as many other features across Office, Bing, and Xbox.  Most recently, the Turing team launched Analyst Agent in M365 Copilot-one of the first reasoning-powered agents of its kind.

If you share our passion for building innovative products and utilizing the power of machine learning in large-scale real-world situations for the benefit of our customers, we would love to consider your application.

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 4+ 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 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience coding in C++, C#, C, Java or Python.
• 3+ years experience in applying deep learning techniques and drive end-to-end AI product development (Search, Recommendation, NLP, Document Understanding, etc).
• 3+ years of experience with common machine learning, deep learning frameworks like Pytorch/Tensorflow.
• 3+ years communicating technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: 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

• Master'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 Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR equivalent experience.
• Proficient ability and effectiveness working end-to-end in a challenging technical problem domain (plan, design, execution, continuous release, and service operation).
• Experience with shipping internet scale, low latency and high throughput systems AI products.
• Self-driven, results oriented, high integrity, ability to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes.
• Customer/End-result/Metrics driven in design and development.
• Keen ability and motivation to learn, enter new domains, and manage through ambiguity.
• Proficient publication track records at top conferences like ACL, EMNLP, SIGKDD, AAAI, WSDM, COLING, WWW, NIPS, ICASSP, etc.
• 3+ years experience creating publications (e.g., patents, libraries, peer-reviewed academic papers).
• Experience presenting at conferences or other events in the outside research/industry community as an invited speaker.
• 3+ years experience conducting research as part of a research program (in academic or industry settings).
• 1+ year(s) experience developing and deploying live production systems, as part of a product team.
• 1+ year(s) experience developing and deploying products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping.

Responsibilities

• You will be proficient one or more subareas and gain expertise in a broad area of research, including applicable research techniques. You'll also gain deep knowledge of a service, platform, or domain, and identify product needs by sharing the latest industry trends and applied technologies.
• You will review business requirements and incorporate research to meet business goals. You'll provide strategic direction for the kinds of data used to solve problems and apply deep subject matter knowledge to support business impact.
• You will participate in onboarding of team members and assist in developing academics to be members of multidiscipline teams. You'll identify new research talent to join Microsoft and collaborate with the academic community to develop the recruiting pipeline.
• You will document work in progress and experimentation results and share findings to promote innovation. You'll also use your deep understanding of fairness and bias to contribute to ethics and privacy policies related to research processes and data collection.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees