Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND experience in business analytics, data science, data modeling or data engineering work
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
- OR equivalent experience.
- Expertise in various ML frameworks and libraries (Scikit-learn, PyTorch/TensorFlow, Azure ML, OpenAI, HuggingFace).
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Fluency with recent NLP & ML advancements e.g. large language models, as well as a driven passion for discovering the next generation of technology.
- Experience working on Machine Translation or language-related tasks would offer a distinct advantage.
- Excellent knowledge of experimental design and evaluation.
- Experience working in a technical problem domain (plan, design, execution, continuous release, and service operation).
- Excellent research skills and experience in bringing cutting-edge research ideas into production to deliver business impact.
- Proven track record of shipping Machine Learning/AI features.
- Excellent communication skills, inter-personal & collaboration skills.
- Proficiency with large data sets (structured and unstructured), relational databases, database-design and ELT.