Applied Scientist, AI Experiences Search

Microsoft

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Hybrid
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$102,100–$202,200 / yr
Posted
4 days ago
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Confirmed live today
Closes
Apr 20, 2027

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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.

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TL;DR · Applied Scientist, AI Experiences Search

Applied Scientist - AI Experiences Search joins the Microsoft AI Web Data team to build the data foundation for Bing and Microsoft AI experiences. This role involves owning end-to-end applied research and engineering to improve web data quality, scale, and model readiness for grounding and large language model training. You will develop and apply state-of-the-art machine learning, statistical, and data mining techniques to solve complex web-scale problems. Daily tasks include analyzing large-scale web data, formulating hypotheses, and designing rigorous experiments. You will utilize LLMs, prompt engineering, and deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Keras. Core competencies include natural language processing, Transformers, and distributed data processing to improve system performance, data management, and accuracy for internet-scale web content discovery and processing.

What does a Applied Scientist earn?

Median $208800 from 61 postings across 10 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Own end-to-end applied research and engineering to improve web data quality and model readiness.
  • Develop and apply state-of-the-art machine learning, LLM, and data mining techniques to solve web-scale problems.
  • Analyze large-scale web data to formulate hypotheses and design rigorous experiments for actionable insights.
  • Use LLMs and prompt engineering to score, classify, label, and evaluate data for scalable model training.
  • Translate complex research findings into product decisions, technical strategies, and engineering roadmaps.
  • Establish best practices for scalable, responsible, and privacy-conscious AI and data solutions.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field and 2+ years of experience, Master's Degree and 1+ year of experience, or a Doctorate.
  • Equivalent experience to the required degrees and years of experience.
  • Experience contributing to research publications, patents, or peer-reviewed academic papers (preferred).
  • 1+ years of experience in product development in machine learning and related areas (preferred).
  • Hands-on experience developing algorithms and models using deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch (preferred).
  • Hands-on experience with large language models like GPT or BERT and knowledge of NLP (preferred).
  • Understanding of modern machine learning techniques including Transformers, DNNs, CNNs, or RNNs (preferred).
  • Experience with large-scale or distributed data processing, high-performance computing, or stream processing (preferred).

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