Senior Forward Deployed Scientist - CoreAI

Microsoft • Mountain View, CA

7d

About The Position

Build world class AI and ML solutions for our customers and partners involving GenAI, AI Agents, and fine-tuned and off-the-shelf models. Build complete, highly performant, intelligent, AI models and solutions (requires ML DevOps experience and building ML frameworks for evaluation, benchmarking, and testing of Agentic AI solutions). Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of innovative solutions that leverage our latest AI Foundry Agentic AI, models, and tools capabilities. Leverage technical skills to architect state-of-the-art solutions that address our customers' business needs, meet their technical requirements, and provide a high degree of reliability and safety Collaborate with other engineering teams, researchers, and Field engineers to help enterprise customers incorporate cutting-edge AI Foundry platform into their robust end-to-end systems. Drive learnings from customer engagements into improving AI Foundry platform and helping build solution accelerators. Play a critical role in identifying opportunities to innovate and differentiate AI Foundry, while maintaining our best-in-class safety standards. Excellent communication skills to explain and demonstrate complex solutions persuasively to technical and non-technical audiences alike. Act as the primary technical advisor for prospective customers evaluating Agents and Azure Direct Foundry models. Demonstrate how we can address the customer's use cases through proofs of concept. Provide technical guidance on integration and deployment best practices. Partner closely with account executives to understand customer requirements. Configure AI Foundry's capabilities to showcase how it meets the customer's needs, and develop customized pilots and prototypes, as well as evaluation suites to make the case for customer adoption. Travel occasionally to customer sites for workshops, implementation support, and building relationships. Establish a shared vision for creating solutions that enable beneficial and safe AI. Doctorate in relevant field OR Master's Degree in relevant field AND 3+ years related research experience OR Bachelor's Degree in relevant field AND 4+ years related research experience OR equivalent experience. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: 3+ years of experience with software design and development using general purpose programming language (Python/Java/C# etc.) and knowledge of data pipelines 1+ year of related research experience with AI/ML techniques and tools (e.g., LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, benchmarking and evaluations of models and agentic solutions) Experience in dealing with ambiguity, and handling changes in customer requirements

Requirements

• Doctorate in relevant field OR Master's Degree in relevant field AND 3+ years related research experience OR Bachelor's Degree in relevant field AND 4+ years related research experience OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience with software design and development using general purpose programming language (Python/Java/C# etc.) and knowledge of data pipelines
• 1+ year of related research experience with AI/ML techniques and tools (e.g., LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, benchmarking and evaluations of models and agentic solutions)
• Experience in dealing with ambiguity, and handling changes in customer requirements

Responsibilities

• Build world class AI and ML solutions for our customers and partners involving GenAI, AI Agents, and fine-tuned and off-the-shelf models.
• Build complete, highly performant, intelligent, AI models and solutions (requires ML DevOps experience and building ML frameworks for evaluation, benchmarking, and testing of Agentic AI solutions).
• Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of innovative solutions that leverage our latest AI Foundry Agentic AI, models, and tools capabilities.
• Leverage technical skills to architect state-of-the-art solutions that address our customers' business needs, meet their technical requirements, and provide a high degree of reliability and safety
• Collaborate with other engineering teams, researchers, and Field engineers to help enterprise customers incorporate cutting-edge AI Foundry platform into their robust end-to-end systems.
• Drive learnings from customer engagements into improving AI Foundry platform and helping build solution accelerators.
• Play a critical role in identifying opportunities to innovate and differentiate AI Foundry, while maintaining our best-in-class safety standards.
• Excellent communication skills to explain and demonstrate complex solutions persuasively to technical and non-technical audiences alike.
• Act as the primary technical advisor for prospective customers evaluating Agents and Azure Direct Foundry models.
• Demonstrate how we can address the customer's use cases through proofs of concept.
• Provide technical guidance on integration and deployment best practices.
• Partner closely with account executives to understand customer requirements.
• Configure AI Foundry's capabilities to showcase how it meets the customer's needs, and develop customized pilots and prototypes, as well as evaluation suites to make the case for customer adoption.
• Travel occasionally to customer sites for workshops, implementation support, and building relationships.
• Establish a shared vision for creating solutions that enable beneficial and safe AI.

What This Job Offers

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