Microsoft Senior Applied Research Scientist 

United States, Washington 

868502841

Required Qualifications:

• Doctorate in relevant field
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated research or applied science experience in Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Multimodal analysis, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years industry, intern and/or Post Doc experience.
• Algorithmic problem solving, system design, and software development skills.
• Familiarity with open-source tools such as PyTorch, as well as experience with statistical analysis and data visualization tools.
• Demonstrated publication record in top-tier, peer-reviewed conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, CVPR, AAAI, or in scientific journals.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 3, 2024.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Identify open and interesting questions, conduct independent research, and collaborate with colleagues and researchers across Microsoft Research (MSR).
• Take ownership of research projects, from prototype to publication.
• Collaborate directly with product leaders and researchers, entailing travel up to 25%.
• Focus on community-leadership, publication, and open-source frameworks.
• Think not just about single benchmarks, models, and scripts, but about larger classes of problems, systems of experimentation, and testable hypotheses to gain understanding.
• Demonstrate broad understanding of state-of-the-art in machine learning concepts and applications.

• Embody our and .