Principal Applied Scientist - The Create Team, Office Product Group

We are seeking a Principal Applied Scientist - The Create Team, Office Group. In this role you will collaborate with a multi-functional group to deliver next generation innovations and experiences, leveraging, 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 and customer-driven. Our team members come from diverse backgrounds, are passionate and loyal to coworkers and our products, and grounded in our customer and business needs. Our team has a sense of artisanship and accountability and provides its members many opportunities for learning and career growth 

This role can be based out of any of Microsoft offices in the US, with flexibility for in-office or work from home schedules. If within a reasonable commutable distance from MS Offices in Redmond, Silicon Valley/Mountainview, CA there is a preference to be on-site occasionally to engage with stakeholders.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.  

Responsibilities

• 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 Culture and Values  

Qualifications

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. 
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