Principal Applied Scientist

The Microsoft E+D India team is looking for high caliber and highly motivated AI Experts to reimagine productivity with AI and build transformative products for our commercial customers.

Our team focuses on strategic workloads like M365 Copilot App, Outlook, Teams, Copilot Extensibility, and so on. In addition, the team obsesses about building next generation engineering infrastructure, tooling and process using AI for improving developer productivity and engineering efficiency. This provides every engineer with exceptional opportunities for rich learning, end-to-end ownership, autonomy, innovation and professional growth.

Our team of Applied Scientists is chartered to tackle a wide variety of challenges, from building data ingestion to curating data for fine tuning to generating actionable insights to fine tune prompts to come up with evaluation metrics to make purpose-built SLMs to infuse AI in productivity scenarios to create AI tooling. 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'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.

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor'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 Master'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 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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..

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. 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 Accommodation request form.

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