Microsoft Principal Applied Scientist - Create Team Office Product Group 

United States, California, Mountain View 

135299326

Applied Scientist - The. In this role you will collaborate with a multi-functional group todeliver next generation innovations and experiences,, fine tuning and prompting engineering foundation models.You will partner with product and engineering teams to invent and deliver on the future for Microsoft CoPilot and other generative artificial products (AI) products.

Our culture is inclusive andits members many opportunities for learning and career growth

Required 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,(e.g.,Large Language Models (LLMs)/large multimodal model(LMM)/Small Language Model (SLM), computer vision, 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 customer/user-facing, project-delivery experience, professional services, and/or consulting experience.
• 2+ years of experience working on Machine Learning (ML) models such as Natural language-based models, Large Language Models (LLMs), Vector Databases (DBs)/ Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).

Other Requirements

to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirementsfor this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• requiredto pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years related experience (e.g., LLM/LMM/SLM, computer vision, research)
  • ORMaster's Degreein Statistics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., LLM/LMM/SLM, computer vision, research)
  • OR Doctorate in Statistics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years related experience (e.g., LLM/LMM/SLM, computer vision, research)
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience in machine learning.
• 2+ years using ML tools likePytorchand TensorFlow.
• Demonstrated experience developing applications using prompt engineering, fine tuning, OpenAIor Azure Open AI APIs.
• Demonstrated System development skills, with a long-range system view that leverages development ranging from rapid research prototypes to carefully architected complex systems.
• 3+ top tier Computer Science conference publications.

• To develop, evaluate,and ship machine learning based products and features.

• Work across multiple disciplines to deliver innovation.

• Confidently helps make and communicate design tradeoffs to lay out a path for achieving a vision.

• Thrives in a bit of chaos then creates the structure needed to execute smoothly at scale.

• Embody our