Microsoft is seeking an Senior AI Applied Scientist to contribute to the development and integration of cutting-edge AI technologies into Microsoft products and services, ensuring they are inclusive, ethical, and impactful.
Requirements
- 1+ years of experience with generative AI OR LLM/ML algorithms
- Experience with MLOps Workflows, including CI/CD, monitoring, and retraining pipelines
- Familiarity with modern LLMOps frameworks (e.g., LangChain, PromptFlow)
- Experience developing and deploying live production systems one or more of the following: C-Sharp, Java, React/Angular, TypeScript
- Experience with design and implementation of enterprise-scale services
- 3+ years of experience publishing in peer-reviewed venues or filing patents
- Experience presenting at conferences or industry events
Responsibilities
- Build collaborative relationships with product and business groups to deliver AI-driven impact
- Research and implement state-of-the-art using foundation models, prompt engineering, RAG, graphs, multi-agent architectures, as well as classical machine learning techniques
- Fine-tune foundation models using domain-specific datasets
- Evaluate model behavior on relevance, bias, hallucination, and response quality via offline evaluations, shadow experiments, online experiments, and ROI analysis
- Build rapid AI solution prototypes, contribute to production deployment of these solutions, debug production code, support MLOps/AIOps
- Contribute to papers, patents, and conference presentations
- Translate research into production-ready solutions and measure their impact through A/B testing and telemetry that address customer needs
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Statistics, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or related field AND 4+ years of experience in AI/ML, predictive analytics, or research
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
- Ability to work 3 days/week in-office
- 0-25% travel required
- Full-Time employment
