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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted: 47 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $209k

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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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Join the Microsoft Turing Team as a Principal Applied Scientist to drive the development of Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, focusing on enhancing large language models for enterprise use. You will lead the evolution of the orchestrator system to improve reasoning and response times while supporting new capabilities in multi-modality and agent-based systems. Responsibilities include advancing model training techniques, fine-tuning LLMs with tenant data, and delivering impactful features from concept to production. Key skills required are expertise in deep learning, natural language processing, multimodal models, and optimization techniques, along with experience in shipping internet-scale AI products and a track record of publishing at top conferences like ACL, EMNLP, and SIGKDD.

Skills

Python TensorFlow PyTorch Kubernetes Docker CI/CD PostgreSQL MongoDB AWS Azure NLP Multimodal_Models Fine_Tuning Reinforcement_Learning A/B_Testing Predictive_Analytics Statistical_Methodologies ACL EMNLP SIGKDD AAAI WSDM COLING WWW ICASSP

What you'll do

Evolve the orchestrator to enhance reasoning capabilities and support new system functionalities.
Advance model training techniques including fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and data curation.
Develop and deliver AI features from concept through production, focusing on evaluation and metrics.
Conduct research to improve deep learning, NLP, multimodal models, and optimization techniques.
Analyze and report on model performance using predictive analytics and statistical methodologies.

What we're looking for

Master's degree in a relevant field with 9+ years of experience or Ph.D. with 6+ years of experience.
Extensive experience (4+ years) in end-to-end technical problem-solving and system development.
Proven track record (4+ years) in shipping internet-scale AI products with low latency and high throughput.
Strong background in customer/metrics-driven design and development for AI solutions.
Publications at top conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, SIGKDD, AAAI, WSDM, COLING, WWW, NIPS, ICASSP.

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