Applied Scientist II Job at Microsoft Corporation (Redmond)

Applied Scientist II

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
United States , Redmond

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

100600.00 - 199000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

We seek an Applied Scientist with expertise in Machine Learning, Generative AI, Agentic Modeling, Data Science, or related areas. The ideal candidate should be passionate about generative modeling, experimental prompt tuning, and large-scale modeling optimization. The candidate should have hands-on experience on working with LLMs, or SLMs such as Qwen, Llama or its variants. Microsoft AI unites product, engineering, and science teams to advance Bing and Consumer Copilot, aiming to provide the best generative search experience through advanced AI/ML technologies and innovative AI features.

Job Responsibility:

Building and owning production machine learning models to improve results.
Working hands on with SOTA generative models like Qwen, Llama, Mistral, GPT and others, to deliver big impact.
Finding insights and forming hypothesis on large-scale data with various machine learning, feature engineering, statistical, and data mining techniques: e.g. regression, classification, NLP, optimization.
Designing experiments, understanding the resulting data, and producing actionable, trustworthy conclusions from them
Wrangling large amounts of data (think petabytes) using various tools, including open-source ones and your own. All programming languages are welcome, especially Python, C#, R, C++, Java, and SQL.
Taking complex problems and the associated data and giving the answers in a concise form to assist senior executives in making key business decisions.

Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field
OR equivalent experience.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice to have:

Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
OR equivalent experience.

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 04, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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