Microsoft Copilot is revolutionizing how people work and has created an unprecedented opportunity to advance the state-of-the-art in a way that benefits millions of people. As a Senior Applied Scientist in Microsoft’s productivity division, your core mission will be to deliver exciting innovation in Microsoft Copilot.
Requirements
- Experience coding and hands-on experience working with foundation models.
- Ability to apply research, preferring the large-scale application of new ideas over theory and prototypes.
- Applications of Foundation Models
- Domain Adaptation of Foundation Models (e.g. fine-tuning LLMs/SLMs)
- Vision, Audio, and Multimodal Foundation Models
- On-device Foundation Models
- Trust, Privacy, and Foundation Models
Responsibilities
- Defining, leading, and helping to conduct research projects that simultaneously advance the state-of-the-art and directly benefit Microsoft’s core productivity products.
- Collaborating and coordinating with people in a range of roles, including researchers, engineers, product managers, designers, and other key product stakeholders. Serving as a bridge between research and product.
- Teaching, guiding, and tutoring colleagues without research backgrounds in state-of-the-art techniques and research best practices.
- Many of the things you will try should lead to unexpected outcomes. You must be comfortable learning from experience, developing new hypotheses, and iterating.
- Sharing your research with others via a range of means, including publication, to enable others to build on your work and to contribute to the understanding of our products as cutting-edge and science driven.
- Effectively communicating with product leaders (and often MSR researchers) throughout the planning and execution of applied research projects, which often involves learning and teaching complex concepts.
Other
- Doctorate (or currently pursuing) in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field OR equivalent experience
- A record of publication in top-tier scientific venues (ongoing or in the recent past) (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, KDD, WWW, CHI, PNAS, Nature)
- Demonstrated collaboration and communication skills, both within-team and cross-team, and experience working through problems in ambiguous environments adapting to new research challenges as technology develops.
- Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements that are required for this role.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check:This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
