▷ (Apply in 3 Minutes) Senior Applied Scientists

Overview How would you like to directly affect the lives of billions of humans Would you like to be responsible for models and code running across tens of thousands of machines across datacenters around the world What if you could multiply your impact by making developers around the world better If you like building highly motivated and productive teams we have got interesting opportunities for you Who we are Our team focuses on strategic workloads like M365 Copilot App Outlook Teams Copilot Extensibility and all productivity applications in M365 The team obsesses about powering workloads with AI and innovates on next generation engineering infrastructure tooling using AI This provides every engineer with exceptional opportunities for rich learning end-to-end ownership autonomy innovation and professional growth Our team of Senior Applied Scientists is chartered to tackle a wide variety of challenges from building data ingestion to curating data to fine tuning prompts and models The scientists focus on evaluation metrics to make purpose-built SLMs to infuse AI in productivity scenarios Every member of this team is expected to collaborate with other teams across Microsoft that are building AI platforms models and products She is expected to lead the feature crews with a growth mindset for embracing and extending the rapidly evolving innovations and breakthroughs in this field Microsoft is committed to Responsible AI and digital safety for all Every member of the team is expected to work through these frameworks to preserve our commitment to responsible AI while innovating rapidly She needs to be self-driven proactive results-oriented and ready to work with minimal ongoing direction to succeed in this environment of rapid changes and building products from grounds up About the Org The Experiences and Devices org in India plays a pivotal role in building and powering user productivity experiences devices and operating systems that help billions of users across the world achieve more 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 Responsibilities You will master 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 junior 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 Qualifications Required Qualifications 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 working in an AI research facility or working with software services experiences infused with AI Solid customer focus and passion for doing the right thing for the customer Proven ability to establish trusted effective relationships across diverse sets of stakeholders Excellent communication skills and cross group collaboration Ability to keep pace with rapid innovations in the field and to be creative to solve problems with no past techniques Experience in developing working with highly scalable classifiers ranking algorithms SLMs LLMs Finetuning with RLHF etc will be a plus Other Requirements 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 Preferred Qualifications Master s degree with Computer Science with Data Science focus Mathematics Statistics or related field AND 3 years data-science experience e g managing structured and unstructured data applying statistical techniques and reporting results OR Bachelor s degree with Computer Science with Data Science focus Mathematics Statistics or related field AND 5 years data-science experience e g managing structured and unstructured data applying statistical techniques and reporting results OR equivalent experience Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex including pregnancy sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws regulations and ordinances We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements If you need assistance and or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process please send a request via the W DJOBS W D W DINIDA WinPDINDIA