Microsoft Principal Applied Scientist 

United States, Washington 

162880554

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.
• 2+ years of experience as a tech lead.
  
• 2+ years of experience applying NLP techniques.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working through full product cycles from initial design to final product delivery.
• Experience developing LLM to support product scenarios
  
• Experience developing and designing backgrounds in multi-tiered distributed services.
  
• Experience with data structures, algorithms, asynchronous programming, and data processing
  
• Experience developing end to end ML/DL (deep learning) systems.

• Participate in design, implementation, and execution across a variety of features, including directly building LLM models.
• Drive architectural changes into the product to expand our footprint and increase developer agility.
• Regularly communicate team progress internally and evangelize progress and opportunities to a wider audience including management and leadership.
• Drive innovations in NLP (natural language processing) applications, ranking and recommendation algorithms.