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Principal Applied Scientist

Microsoft

$139,900 - $304,200
Sep 18, 2025
Redmond, WA, USA
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Microsoft’s Enterprise customers need tools to build agentic experiences over public and private knowledge. The Azure AI Knowledge team is expanding Azure AI Search to meet the demands of complex queries that require reasoning and reflection to deliver high-quality results.

Requirements

  • well versed in both deep learning and LLM techniques
  • solve the hardest challenges where the latest reasoning models are best suited
  • create low latency options where speed is critical

Responsibilities

  • Developing LLM prompts, agents and query execution workflows, often with tight latency constraints
  • Collection, generation and filtering of training and evaluation data
  • Building off state of the art techniques from across Microsoft and the industry
  • Select, develop and build metrics to use across the full range of search engine components;
  • Provide technical leadership and contribute to experimentation infrastructure and proofs-of-concept to test out new ideas and concepts;
  • Advances the quality of the teams experimental codebase to ensure experiments are efficient and repeatable;

Other

  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
  • equivalent experience.
  • Seek out and incorporate customer feedback into dataset construction, evaluations and technique development;
  • Nurtures and grow multiple collaborative relationships with program management, engineers, and other functions across products;
  • Sets the bar for how the team plans, documents and communicates in a clear and efficient way.