Principal Applied Scientist | Microsoft Careers
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This role pays more than 53% of similar roles. Most pay $152,562–$208,800 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $177k versus about $181k 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 1586 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $119,800–$234,700 across 1414 roles with salary data.
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Join our small, agile team at M365 Copilot as a Senior or Principal Applied Scientist to fine-tune large language models on tenant data for task-specific agents and solutions. You will write and execute training pipelines for LLMs post-training, design experiments to demonstrate the effectiveness of these models, and implement inference solutions that meet product specifications. Your role involves documenting your work and communicating results across teams while mentoring junior members. Ideal candidates have a strong background in language model training, data pipelines, and shipping high-quality models, with experience using Python and frameworks like PyTorch. You should also possess 2+ years of experience fine-tuning AI/ML models, particularly LLMs, and building generative AI pipelines such as RAG systems.
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