This role pays less than
51%
of similar roles. Most pay
$161,250–$231,812
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versus about
$197k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Microsoft
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
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Listed pay typically runs
$119,800–$234,700
across 586 roles with salary data.
As a Senior Applied Scientist on the Microsoft Turing Team, you will work at the intersection of research and engineering to power core systems for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. You will be responsible for evolving orchestrator reasoning, advancing state-of-the-art model training through fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, and performing high-quality data curation. Your daily work involves building and delivering model-driven features from concept to production, including evaluation, metrics, and A/B testing. To succeed in this role, you must possess expertise in deep learning, natural language processing, multimodality models, and model optimization. You will solve complex problems related to orchestrator reasoning and agent-based systems while ensuring scientific rigor. The role requires a strong background in statistics or engineering to advance the frontier of large language models for enterprise productivity.
What does a Applied Scientist earn?
Median $208800 from 47 postings across 10 companies.
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Large Language Models
Python
C++
C#
Java
PyTorch
TensorFlow
NLP
Distributed Training
Search
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Large Language Models
Information Retrieval
Ranking Systems
Agentic AI
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Supervised Fine-Tuning
Preference Optimization
Model Distillation
Machine Learning
A/B Testing
Distributed Training
Search Engines