Principal Applied Sciences Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead, hire, and grow a diverse world-class team of Applied Scientists.  

• Lead research and productization of state-of-the-art in AI for Software Engineering 

• Build and manage large-scale AI experiments and models. 

• Drive experimentation through A/B testing and offline validation to evaluate model performance. 

• Collaborate across disciplines and geographies with product teams in Microsoft and Github 

• Stay up to date with the research literature and product advances in AI for software engineering 

• Collaborate with world renowned experts in programming tools and developer tools to integrate AI across software development stack for Copilot 

• Lead others by exemplifying growth mindset, inclusiveness, teamwork, and customer obsession  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications: 

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics. 

• 10+ years experience with strong proficiency in Python, machine learning frameworks, and experience developing and deploying generative AI or machine learning models into production. (Experience with additional programming languages is a plus but not required.) 

• 2+ years of people management and/or project management experience.