Microsoft Senior Applied Scientist 

United States, Washington 

554607269

and comfortable defining a path through ambiguity towards high-level goals. The successfulvia presentations, publications, media interviews, and sim

Required Qualifications

• Doctorate (or currently pursuing) in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field
  ORequivalent experience
• 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)
• Experience coding and hands-on experience working with foundation models.
• Ability to apply research, preferring the large-scale application of new ideas over theory and prototypes.
• 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.

Other Requirements

• As a part of your application please attach your CV and the names and contact information of at least three established researchers familiar with your research who will be willing to write a letter of reference. One of these people should be your Ph.D. advisor.
• (Optional) A cover letter discussing your interest in the role and how your experience connects with the topics in this call.
• (Optional) A brief academic statement that outlines both your research achievements and agenda and up to two papers that highlight your research interests.

Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements that are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on successful applied research projects in industry environments
• Recordof publication specifically on applications of language models or very closely related areas
• An applicants will come with the following skills would be a plus:
  • ApplicationsofFoundation Models
  • Domain Adaptation of Foundation Models (e.g.fine-tuning LLMs/SLMs)
  • Vision, Audio, and Multimodal Foundation Models
  • On-device Foundation Models
  • Trust, Privacy, and Foundation Models
  • Agentic Systems
  • Prompt Tuning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Applied Machine Learning
  • Data Mining with Language Models
  • Human-AI Interaction
  • Computational Social Science

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• Defining, leading, and helping to conduct research projects that simultaneously advance thestate-of-the-artand directlybenefitMicrosoft’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 instate-of-the-arttechniques and research best practices.

• Many of the things you will try should lead to unexpected outcomes. You must be comfortable learning from experience, developing new hypotheses, and iterating.

• 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 ascutting-edgeand science driven.

• Effectively communicating with product leaders (and often MSR researchers) throughout the planning and execution of applied research projects, which often involves learning and teaching complex concepts.