Microsoft Senior Applied Scientist - Microsoft Teams 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

991406494

This role is based in Cambridge (United Kingdom).

You should apply if you are someone who:

• Has solid experience with the deep technical aspects of research and engineering in Artificial Intelligence, Language Models, Machine Learning, Computer Vision or Speech Recognition.
• Can communicate clearly complex technical concepts, as well as product needs and priorities.
• Thrives in an environment where people collaborate across different disciplines, teams and geographies to deliver innovation to customers.
• Can inspire without authority across teams and motivate individuals to work together toward common goals.
• Can navigate uncertainty and create clarity and focus to execute toward a common vision.

Required:

• Master’s degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field.
• Experience in ML Engineering and Python coding leveraging PyTorch, TensorFlow or similar framework, within large code repositories and in collaboration with additional team members.
• Experience in designing, training or fine-tuning transformer-based models or LLMs.
• Experience of working with computer vision or audio applications.
• Excellent analytical, coding, communication, and collaborative skills.

Preferred:

• Industry experience delivering real-world solutions.
• Experience with large-scale distributed training and deployment.
• Experience with network architecture search, quantization and other model optimization techniques.
• Experience with Image encoders like Siglip, Florence, etc...
• Experience with AML/ADO pipelines and CI tools.
• System development skills spanning rapid prototypes to production systems with complex dependencies.

• Research, design, implement, adapt, train, fine tune or distill state-of-the-art multi-modal models with the aim to support human communication in Teams
• Prepare datasets, design and implement metrics and optimize model efficiency and performance
• Collaborate closely with other groups (research, engineering and product groups) within the wider Microsoft organization, to create the next generation of AI innovation in our products and services.
• Embody Microsoft culture and values.