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 that drives customer adoption and usage.
Requirements
- Ability to apply research, preferring the large-scale application of new ideas over theory and prototypes.
- 1+ year(s) experience developing and deploying products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping.
- 3+ years of experience in machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and/or statistics.
- Experience coding and hands-on experience working with foundation models.
Responsibilities
- Defining, leading, and helping to conduct research projects and workstreams that directly benefitour customers, drive positive usage, and improve Microsoft’s core productivity products.
- Generating ML / AI based models that can be shipped to customers to improve their experience and used internally to generate data insights to shape the features and products we ship to customers.
- Teaching, guiding, and tutoring colleagues without research backgrounds in state-of-the-art techniques and research best practices.
- Many of the thingsyou will try shouldlead to unexpected outcomes.Youmust be comfortable learning from experience, developing new hypotheses, and iterating.
- Sharing project outcomes and insights with others via a range of means, including publication,to enable others to build onyourwork and tocontribute tothe understanding of our productsas cutting-edge and science driven.
- Effectively communicating with product leaders throughout the planning and execution of applied research projects, which often involves learning and teaching complex concepts.
Other
- We are looking for candidates who are creative, self-driven, curious, people-oriented and comfortable defining a path through ambiguity towards high-level goals.
- The successful applicant(s) will collaborate closely with people across Microsoft’s product teams to see their ideas realized in products and services that are used worldwide.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- 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.
