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Do you want to help build innovative tools that empower AI Agents to achieve their full potential? Are you passionate about pushing the boundaries of what AI can do? Does the thought of being able to influence the product through predictive insights & recommendations excite you? If so, we would like to hear from you! The future of work is being redefined with AI agents. Microsoft is leading this transformation with M365, Copilot Studio, and Azure AI Foundry. As a Senior Applied Scientist in Microsoft’s Business and Industry Copilots group, your core mission will be to deliver exciting innovation in Microsoft Copilot. We are looking for candidates who are creative, self-driven, curious, people-oriented and comfortable defining a path through ambiguity towards high-level goals. The successful applicant(s) will collaborate closely with people across Microsoft’s product teams and Microsoft Research to see their ideas realized in products and services that are used worldwide, as well as to contribute back to the scientific community and beyond (e.g. via presentations, publications, media interviews, and similar).
Job Responsibility:
Defining, leading, and helping to conduct research projects that simultaneously advance the state-of-the-art and directly benefit Microsoft’s core productivity products
Collaborating and coordinating with people in a range of roles, including researchers, engineers, product managers, designers, and other key product stakeholders
Serving as a bridge between research and product
Teaching, guiding, and tutoring colleagues without research backgrounds in state-of-the-art techniques and research best practices
Many of the things you will try should lead to unexpected outcomes
You must be comfortable learning from experience, developing new hypotheses, and iterating
Sharing your research with others via a range of means, including publication, to enable others to build on your work and to contribute to the understanding of our products as cutting-edge and science driven
Effectively communicating with product leaders (and often MSR researchers) throughout the planning and execution of applied research projects, which often involves learning and teaching complex concepts
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND proven years of experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND demonstrated years of related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
equivalent experience
Proven years of experience developing and deploying AI/ML products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping
Proven years of experience with transformer-based models (e.g., GPT, Llama)
Coding and hands-on experience working with foundation models
Ability to apply research, preferring the large-scale application of new ideas over theory and prototypes
Demonstrated collaboration and communication skills, both within-team and cross-team, and experience working through problems in ambiguous environments adapting to new research challenges as technology develops
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:
Proficiency in Python for data science workflows, leveraging libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn, Matplotlib, and Jupyter for data analysis, experimentation, and rapid prototyping
Exposure to Deep Neural Network training and inference and experience in one or more deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.)
Experience with Agent based architectures, frameworks and technologies (such as MCP, A2A protocol, Langchain, Azure AI Foundry)
Experienced in web application development frameworks, such as React
Experience delivering a Cloud SaaS product on Azure, AWS or GCP
A record of publication in top-tier scientific venues (ongoing or in the recent past) (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, KDD, WWW, CHI, PNAS, Nature)