Question
FULL_TIME
5-10

Applied Scientist II

11/25/2025

Drive projects from design through implementation and experimentation to shipping to users. Identify gaps in data and develop heuristics and solutions using language models.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

10,001+ employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

About The Company
Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.
About the Role
- Driving projects from design through implementation, experimentation and finally shipping to our users. This requires deep dive into data to identify gaps, come up with heuristics and possible solutions, using LLMs to create the right model or evaluation prompts, and setup the engineering pipeline or infrastructure to run them. - Come up with evaluation techniques, datasets, criteria and metrics for model evaluations. These are often SOTA models or metrics / datasets. - Hands on own the fine-tuning, use of language models, including dataset creation, filtering, review, and continuous iteration. - This requires working in a diverse geographically distributed team environment where collaboration and innovation are valued. Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., AI, ML, statistics, research) - OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ year(s) related experience (e.g., AI, ML, statistics, predictive analytics, research) - OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field - OR equivalent experience. Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., AI, ML, statistics, predictive analytics, research) - OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ 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+ year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) - OR equivalent experience. 1+ year(s) experience creating publications (e.g., patents, peer-reviewed academic papers).
Key Skills
Applied ScienceMachine LearningStatisticsData AnalysisModel EvaluationLanguage ModelsDataset CreationCollaborationInnovationFine-tuningPredictive AnalyticsResearchEngineering PipelineHeuristicsExperimentationSOTA Models
Categories
TechnologyData & AnalyticsScience & ResearchEngineering
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