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Principal Applied Researcher AI/NLP

At PointClickCare our mission is simple: to help providers deliver exceptional c...

Location

United States

Salary:

195800.00 - 217500.00 USD / Year

PointClickCare

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

PhD or comparable level of experience in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering or a related field
4-10+ year industry experience building solutions in commercial SaaS, including at least 4 years working in applications of NLP, Search or AI/ML technologies for healthcare
Strong interest in applying AI/ML/NLP to healthcare related problems and data
Expert-level practical, hands-on experience developing and applying a wide range of techniques in Natural Language Processing, including fine tuning of LLMs and other Transformer models, plus one or more additional AI/ML or Search related areas of expertise to solve real-world problems at scale
Demonstrated ability to lead and perform research and experimentation to select appropriate approaches, algorithms, evaluation methods, and frameworks, as well as tasks such as feature selection, language modeling, evaluation and fine tuning or training models, applying standard approaches or developing new tools or workflows as needed to meet project requirements
Significant experience building and deploying AI/machine learning and NLP models for large-scale SaaS products, including familiarity with industry standard software development concepts such as scaling issues, version control, CI/CD pipelines, and security
Solid understanding and experience with transformer models and multiple kinds of NLP and ML models and approaches including logistic regression, random forest, ensemble methods, SVM, KNN, reinforcement learning, and other ML techniques
Proficiency in Python and Java required. Proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript and modern UI frameworks for building prototype or tool front ends desired
Proficiency doing data engineering for ML and NLP applications, including exposure to database systems and proficiency with SQL
Proficiency building models from big data using modern packages, models and data analysis stacks such as NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, Keras, LightGBM, fastText, NLTK, and spaCy. Proficiency fine tuning Hugging Face Transformers required

Job Responsibility

You will be applying NLP including GenAI and other AI/ML techniques to develop model systems and solutions, collaborating across functions to scale and integrate advanced solutions into successful end user experiences in large-scale cloud based SaaS production environments for healthcare
You will be working with product leaders, clinical informaticists, data scientists, UI/UX researchers and designers, other AI and machine learning and domain experts, engineering teams and others, including work with customers and users who are healthcare professionals
Design, build and evaluate solutions that may involve structured or unstructured data including speech or natural language for healthcare use cases, delivering capabilities such as summarization, predictive models, recommenders, semantic search, extraction, classification or other NLP, AI or machine learning based techniques
You will be performing research and experimentation to select appropriate approaches, algorithms, evaluation methods and frameworks and doing the R&D to deliver model systems
You will perform, oversee and assist in data collection, data cleaning, data analysis, algorithm selection or design, prompt tuning, parameter fine tuning, training, development and evaluation of systems that deliver responsible AI solutions at scale, using existing or developing new tools or workflows as needed
As a principal applied researcher, you will bring deep technical expertise and also provide mentorship on advanced AI, NLP, data science, statistical and machine learning methods and technologies, helping the organization develop new capabilities for innovative solutions
You will have substantial independence and responsibility from day one

What we offer

Benefits starting from Day 1
Retirement Plan Matching
Flexible Paid Time Off
Wellness Support Programs and Resources
Parental & Caregiver Leaves
Fertility & Adoption Support
Continuous Development Support Program
Employee Assistance Program
Allyship and Inclusion Communities
Employee Recognition … and more

Fulltime

Principal Applied Researcher AI/NLP

At PointClickCare our mission is simple: to help providers deliver exceptional c...

Location

Canada , Mississauga

Salary:

176000.00 - 195000.00 CAD / Year

PointClickCare

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

PhD or comparable level of experience in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering or a related field
4-10+ year industry experience building solutions in commercial SaaS, including at least 4 years working in applications of NLP, Search or AI/ML technologies for healthcare
Strong interest in applying AI/ML/NLP to healthcare related problems and data
Expert-level practical, hands-on experience developing and applying a wide range of techniques in Natural Language Processing, including fine tuning of LLMs and other Transformer models, plus one or more additional AI/ML or Search related areas of expertise to solve real-world problems at scale
Demonstrated ability to lead and perform research and experimentation to select appropriate approaches, algorithms, evaluation methods, and frameworks, as well as tasks such as feature selection, language modeling, evaluation and fine tuning or training models, applying standard approaches or developing new tools or workflows as needed to meet project requirements
Significant experience building and deploying AI/machine learning and NLP models for large-scale SaaS products, including familiarity with industry standard software development concepts such as scaling issues, version control, CI/CD pipelines, and security
Solid understanding and experience with transformer models and multiple kinds of NLP and ML models and approaches including logistic regression, random forest, ensemble methods, SVM, KNN, reinforcement learning, and other ML techniques
Proficiency in Python and Java required
Proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript and modern UI frameworks for building prototype or tool front ends desired
Proficiency doing data engineering for ML and NLP applications, including exposure to database systems and proficiency with SQL

Job Responsibility

Applying NLP including GenAI and other AI/ML techniques to develop model systems and solutions, collaborating across functions to scale and integrate advanced solutions into successful end user experiences in large-scale cloud based SaaS production environments for healthcare
Working with product leaders, clinical informaticists, data scientists, UI/UX researchers and designers, other AI and machine learning and domain experts, engineering teams and others, including work with customers and users who are healthcare professionals
Design, build and evaluate solutions that may involve structured or unstructured data including speech or natural language for healthcare use cases, delivering capabilities such as summarization, predictive models, recommenders, semantic search, extraction, classification or other NLP, AI or machine learning based techniques
Performing research and experimentation to select appropriate approaches, algorithms, evaluation methods and frameworks and doing the R&D to deliver model systems
Perform, oversee and assist in data collection, data cleaning, data analysis, algorithm selection or design, prompt tuning, parameter fine tuning, training, development and evaluation of systems that deliver responsible AI solutions at scale, using existing or developing new tools or workflows as needed
As a principal applied researcher, you will bring deep technical expertise and also provide mentorship on advanced AI, NLP, data science, statistical and machine learning methods and technologies, helping the organization develop new capabilities for innovative solutions
You will have substantial independence and responsibility from day one

What we offer

Benefits starting from Day 1
Retirement Plan Matching
Flexible Paid Time Off
Wellness Support Programs and Resources
Parental & Caregiver Leaves
Fertility & Adoption Support
Continuous Development Support Program
Employee Assistance Program
Allyship and Inclusion Communities
Employee Recognition

Fulltime

Principal Applied Scientist

Do you want to be part of a team which delivers innovative products and machine ...

Location

United States , Redmond

Salary:

139900.00 - 274800.00 USD / Year

Microsoft Corporation

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ 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 4+ years related experience
OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience
OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
Microsoft Cloud Background Check

Job Responsibility

Develop proficiency in one or more specialized sub‑areas while building broad knowledge across a wider research domain
Apply relevant research methodologies, deepen understanding of key services, platforms, or domains, and identify product opportunities by tracking industry trends and emerging applied technologies
Review business requirements and incorporate research to meet business goals
Provide strategic direction for the kinds of data used to solve problems and apply deep subject matter knowledge to support business impact
Participate in onboarding of team members and assist in developing academics to be members of multidiscipline teams
Identify new research talent to join Microsoft and collaborate with the academic community to develop the recruiting pipeline
Document work in progress and experimentation results and share findings to promote innovation
Use deep understanding of fairness and bias to contribute to ethics and privacy policies related to research processes and data collection

Fulltime

Senior Applied Scientist and Principal Applied Scientist

AI has created an unprecedented opportunity to make work better for hundreds of ...

Location

United States , Multiple Locations

Salary:

119800.00 - 234700.00 USD / Year

Microsoft Corporation

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

A record of publications in top-tier scientific venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, NAACL, KDD, WWW, CHI, PNAS, Nature, EMNLP, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, CoRL)
Doctorate (or currently pursuing) in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Information Science, Statistics or related field AND 1+ years of experience
OR Master’s Degree AND 3+ years of relevant experience
OR Bachelor’s Degree AND 4+ years of relevant experience
OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
Microsoft Cloud Background Check

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
Shape product direction by integrating rigorous scientific methods into the product lifecycle
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
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 Microsoft researchers (MSR)) throughout the planning and execution of applied research projects, which often involves learning and teaching complex concepts

Fulltime

Principal Applied Scientist

Do you want to help build innovative tools that empower AI Agents to achieve the...

Location

Ireland , Dublin

Salary:

Not provided

Microsoft Corporation

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND extensive years of 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 proven years of experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND proven years of related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
OR equivalent experience
Extensive 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)
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

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

Fulltime

Principal Applied Researcher AI/NLP

Location

United States

Salary:

Not provided

PointClickCare

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Experience applying NLP or AI/ML in industry
Experience working in healthcare data or healthcare-related products
Experience directly building or deploying models in a SaaS or cloud environment
Experience mentoring other data scientists or playing a principal/lead role on projects
Experience working with modern transformer or LLM models (e.g., BERT, GPT, fine‑tuning)
Comfort coding in Python and Java in a hands-on way

Fulltime

Principal Applied Researcher AI/NLP

Location

United States

Salary:

Not provided

PointClickCare

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Experience applying NLP or AI/ML in industry
Experience working in healthcare data or healthcare-related products
Experience directly building or deploying models in a SaaS or cloud environment
Experience mentoring other data scientists or playing a principal/lead role on projects
Experience working with modern transformer or LLM models (e.g., BERT, GPT, fine‑tuning)
Comfort coding in Python and Java in a hands-on way

Fulltime

Principal Applied Scientist - Small Language Models

Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group is seeking a visionary and hands-on Principal...

Location

United Kingdom , Reading

Salary:

Not provided

Microsoft Corporation

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Doctorate in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, or a related field with demonstratable experience in applied research or product development
OR Master's degree in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, or a related field with demonstratable experience in applied research or product development
OR Bachelor's degree in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, or a related field with demonstratable experience in applied research or product development
Strong publication record in top-tier venues (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI)
Advanced Python or C++ (especially C++11 and newer) experience
Advanced experience in deep learning and its different toolkits, in particular Pytorch or TensorFlow
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
Demonstrated ability to translate research into real-world applications
Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, HuggingFace)
Hands-on experience with generative models, especially diffusion and transformer-based synthesis

Job Responsibility

Design and prototype unified token-based architectures that treat text and/or image data as sequences for coherent text or multimodal generation
Work on SLMs for tasks such as planning, image captioning, visual question answering, and structured text generation
Build scalable training pipelines for large-scale text datasets
Optimize deep neural networks for deployment on Neural Processing Units (NPUs), GPUs and cloud environments, maximizing efficiency and performance
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate models into Microsoft products and services
Publish research in top-tier venues (NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, ICLR) and contribute to the scientific community
Mentor junior scientists and engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative research environment

Fulltime

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