Principal Applied Scientist
Microsoft
The Product
The rapid growth of the Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agent, Power BI, Power Pages), is fueled by organizations across the globe investing in leveraging low-code/no-code development models to accelerate their digital transformation ambitions. Power Platform is a strategic new growth area for Microsoft, but more importantly, it is a disruptor technology that is giving “Fusion Teams” of Low Code and Pro Code makers access to tools and technologies, to create next generation of business productivity software via radically simplified experience and without requiring extensive and costly training. It is transforming careers of ‘citizen developers’, making pro-developers far more productive and helping IT finally innovate at the pace that their businesses expect. To boost Power Platform to scale to millions of 'citizen developers', we are investing in Power Pages – an early emergent-stage product within Power Platform suite currently used by customers to enable collaboration with users both internal and external to their organizations. We are early in our journey to innovate on Power Pages product, innovate and infuse AI into all services and experiences and closely integrate with Data, shaping it to be the #1 enterprise platform for creating and hosting business websites to drive usage to 1 billion users and incremental revenue and value for Power Platform.
The Team
We are passionate about building things that help other teams and solving problems that span across the org. We collaborate closely with many different teams and pursue creative solutions to help make them successful. We embrace modern tooling and approaches, and we’re optimizing our engineering for building cloud first web applications with a faster cadence of releases to deliver innovation at an exciting pace. Our responsibilities span across multiple key areas, including building core libraries, common components, AI innovation, hyperscale services and systems that support thousands of requests per second for hundreds of thousands of applications hosted worldwide, and engineering infrastructure to develop, build, and deploy applications. Our team works in an agile start-up like environment where we expect each team member to think out of the box to contribute and collaborate towards the mission of the team in a feature-crew setting.
The Candidate
As a team, we are very customer focused and driven by passion, creativity, teamwork, agility, accountability, and desire to learn every day. We are looking for a Principal Applied Scientist for our team that creates the foundational frameworks and technologies that our Power Pages and Mobile applications are built upon. This team creates core technologies of our web applications and create world class AI capabilities for makers and end users.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
The team consists of Applied Scientists and Engineers partnering regularly with Product Managers and Designers. Our team works in an agile start-up like environment where we expect each team member to think out of the box to contribute and collaborate towards the mission of the team.
- Conduct applied research to develop innovative AI and machine learning models that address real-world challenges.
- Lead end-to-end lifecycle of machine learning models, from prototyping and implementation to evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
- Create and adapt novel training and fine-tuning algorithms for language models.
- Bring research projects to successful completion yielding new algorithms, prototypes, theories, tools, methods, analyses, insights, or collections of data which solve one or more open research problems.
- Operate and support 24X7 usage of AI Models by customers.
- Document and share best practices across the organization.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in AI and machine learning, and apply new techniques to solve complex problems.
- Embody our culture and values.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
- 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).
- OR 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).
- OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).
- OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).
- OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).
- OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years experience creating publications (e.g., patents, libraries, peer-reviewed academic papers).
- Experience presenting at conferences or other events in the outside research/industry community as an invited speaker.
- 4+ years experience conducting research as part of a research program (in academic or industry settings).
- 2+ year(s) experience developing and deploying live production systems, as part of a product team.
- 2+ year(s) experience developing and deploying products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping.
- Applications of Foundation Models, Domain Adaptation of Foundation Models (e.g. fine-tuning LLMs/SLMs).
- Vision, Audio, and Multimodal Foundation Models.
- Agentic Systems.
- Prompt Tuning.
- Natural Language Processing.
- Human-AI Interaction.
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. 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.