Microsoft is leading the transformation of the future of work with AI agents, M365, Copilot Studio, and Azure AI Foundry. The company is looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to deliver innovation in Microsoft Copilot.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience developing and deploying AI/ML products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping
- 2+ years of experience with transformer-based models (e.g., GPT, Llama)
- Experience coding and hands-on experience working with foundation models.
- Exposure to Deep Neural Network training and inference and experience in one or more deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.).
- Experience with Agent based architectures, frameworks and technologies (such as MCP, A2A protocol, Langchain, Azure AI Foundry)
- Experienced in web application development frameworks, such as React
- Experience delivering a Cloud SaaS product on Azure, AWS or GCP
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.
- 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.
Other
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements 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.
- 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)
- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.
- If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
