Senior Applied Scientist
Microsoft
Job Description
- Bachelor'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 Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
- OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
- OR equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of working in an AI research facility or working with software services / experiences infused with AI.
- Solid customer focus and passion for doing the right thing for the customer.
- Proven ability to establish trusted, effective relationships across diverse sets of stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills and cross group collaboration.
- Ability to keep pace with rapid innovations in the field and to be creative to solve problems with no past techniques.
- Experience in developing / working with highly scalable classifiers, ranking algorithms, SLMs, LLMs, Finetuning with RLHF, etc. will be a plus.