Principal Applied Scientist

**Principal Applied Scientist**:
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Date posted

**Jun 11, 2025**
- Job number

**1829429**
- Work site

**Up to 100% work from home**
- Travel

**0-25**%**
- Role type

**Individual Contributor**
- Profession

**Research, Applied, & Data Sciences**
- Discipline

**Applied Sciences**
- Employment type

**Full-Time**

**Overview**:
As a **Principal**Applied Scientist** in the Create ML team, you will work in an exciting and fast-paced environment, collaborating closely with teams across the company, including Microsoft Research and various product groups. You will have the opportunity to develop cutting-edge visual creation models and build top tier visual creation experience in M365 Copilot. This role is crucial for driving innovation and creating modern, inclusive, and intelligent design experiences used by millions worldwide.

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.

**Qualifications**:
**Required Qualifications**:
- Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
- OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
- OR Doctorate in Statistics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
- OR equivalent experience.
- Proficiency in Python and relevant ML libraries (e.g., PyTorch).
- Experience with LLM/VLM/diffusion models (e.g., GPT, Deepseek-R1, Stable diffusion, Phi-V, Qwen).
- Technical background in coding and design, specifically in the development of AI models for scaled production services.
- Demonstrated success in shipping applied research to production, highlighting a track record of combining coding skills with advanced expertise in AI model development.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Leadership skills to influence others, with the ability to understand team dynamics, retain, attract, and develop team members.
- Grounded in growth mindset, and advocate for diversity and inclusion.
- Customer obsessed and passionate about product impact.

**Responsibilities**:

- You will work on machine learning (ML) projects across various domains like natural language processing (NLP), Vision and harness LLMs, VLMs, and Diffusion models to deliver visual AI solutions for our customers.
- You will get the opportunity of working in a fast-paced environment developing algorithms and techniques leveraging text, and images for analyzing and transforming content to build solutions that have the potential to transform people’s lives.
- You will work with engineering partner teams on the model integration/flight/maintenance.
- Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
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Industry leading healthcare
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Educational resources
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Discounts on products and services
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Savings and investments
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Maternity and paternity leave
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Generous time away
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Giving programs
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Opportunities to network and connect