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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $119,800–$234,700 / yr
Posted: 57 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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

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As a Senior Applied Scientist on the MSAI Search Relevance team, you will lead high-impact projects that enhance Copilot Chat and Search experiences by applying cutting-edge techniques such as dense retrieval, hybrid search, and RAG architectures. Your day-to-day involves identifying gaps in search quality, formulating hypotheses, and delivering scalable solutions while mentoring a team of applied scientists to ensure scientific rigor and career development. You will innovate with state-of-the-art machine learning and NLP methods to improve retrieval, ranking, and query understanding at enterprise scale, adapting vector search algorithms for semantic retrieval and fine-tuning large language models. Preferred qualifications include extensive experience in applied science projects, data analysis, and deploying production systems in high-scale environments like search or conversational AI.

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Python Java C++ TensorFlow PyTorch Keras Scikit-learn Rasa FAISS ANN ScaNN LLM GPT T5 Llama CI/CD Azure AWS GitHub Docker Kubernetes Prometheus Grafana PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis Elasticsearch GitLab Jenkins Ansible Terraform

What you'll do

Drive high-impact applied science projects from ideation to implementation in Copilot-driven enterprise search.
Mentor and empower a team of applied scientists, guiding their technical direction and career development.
Innovate with cutting-edge techniques to enhance retrieval, ranking, and semantic search in Copilot systems.
Document and share experimental results and methodologies to promote transparency and innovation within the organization.
Translate business goals into clear scientific strategies for high-priority objectives.
Collaborate across organizations to ensure alignment and drive progress on product delivery.

What we're looking for

3+ years experience in applied science projects from ideation to production in high-scale environments.
Proven track record of data analysis at scale, including working with logs, telemetry, and large datasets.
Experience developing and deploying live production systems as part of a product team.
Expertise in search and ranking systems, semantic retrieval, and information retrieval at scale.
Applied experience with state-of-the-art sparse and dense retrieval and ranking techniques.
Familiarity with RAG architectures using LLMs for query rewriting, summarization, and document reranking.

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WA 76 days ago $119,800–$234,700

Python TypeScript Golang Java C# Scala Rust React Next.js AI/ML systems C#/Java Model pretraining Post training Evaluation Inference CI/CD

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