Senior Applied Scientist

Microsoft

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Work type: Hybrid
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Salary: $119,800–$234,700 / yr
Posted: 12 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Closes: Apr 12, 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 · Senior Applied Scientist

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The Senior Applied Scientist joins the Copilot Offline Evaluation Platform team to improve how offline evaluations represent and predict real customer experiences. You will develop scientific methods to extract representative query and intent patterns from Copilot traffic, generate high-quality synthetic evaluation data, and reproduce customer dissatisfaction scenarios as compliant evalsets. Your daily work involves designing and building machine learning models, algorithms, and experimentation frameworks while developing robust data, training, evaluation, and inference pipelines for production use. You will utilize skills in generative AI, large language models, natural language processing, and responsible AI practices. The role focuses on increasing alignment between offline evaluation results and online shadow experiments for long-running agents and generative AI systems, ensuring model quality, reliability, efficiency, safety, and privacy-preserving machine learning.

What does a Applied Scientist earn?

Median $208800 from 61 postings across 10 companies.

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Skills

Generative AI Large Language Models Machine Learning Natural Language Processing Deep Learning Synthetic Data Generation Responsible AI Inference Pipelines Experimentation Frameworks Privacy-Preserving ML Computer Vision Recommender Systems Statistics

What you'll do

Develop scientific methods to extract representative query and intent patterns from Copilot traffic.
Generate high-quality synthetic evaluation data to represent real customer experiences.
Measure and improve the representativeness of query sets and tenant data.
Reproduce customer dissatisfaction scenarios as compliant evaluation sets.
Increase alignment between offline evaluation results and online shadow experiments.
Design, build, and evaluate machine learning models and experimentation frameworks.
Develop robust data, training, evaluation, and inference pipelines for production use.
Conduct rigorous offline and online experiments to provide actionable recommendations.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field and 4+ years of related experience.
Master's Degree in a relevant field and 3+ years of related experience.
Doctorate in a relevant field and 1+ year(s) of related experience.
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check.
Experience building, deploying, and operating production machine learning systems at scale (preferred).
Experience with deep learning, generative AI, LLMs, NLP, recommender systems, or computer vision (preferred).
Experience with responsible AI, model safety, privacy, fairness, robustness, and evaluation (preferred).
Evidence of technical leadership through mentoring, cross-team collaboration, patents, or publications (preferred).