Principal Applied Researcher
Microsoft
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This role pays less than 76% of similar roles. Most pay $154,550–$234,362 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $152k versus about $194k for comparable roles.
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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing
Microsoft currently has 694 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $119,800–$234,700 across 651 roles with salary data.
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The Applied Researcher 2/ Senior Applied Researcher joins the Code|AI team to advance AI for developers. In this role, you will lead groundbreaking research projects, moving them from initial research into production environments. You will collaborate with scientists, engineers, and designers to build and train state-of-the-art models, specifically focusing on post-training code specific models like code completion, code embedding models, and agentic research for Copilot Coding Agent, Copilot CLI, and Copilot Code Review. Your daily work involves creating new datasets from public and internal code, managing large-scale ML experiments, and applying techniques like RAG and evaluation. You will solve technical problems in software engineering by iterating on AI projects at scale using LLMs, CodeLLMs, and AI IDE technologies.
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