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Do you want to be part of a team which delivers innovative AI features across flagship products? Does the opportunity to join a fast-paced, high-visibility, diverse team in a highly competitive market sound exciting to you? If so, the Microsoft Excel team has great opportunities for you. We are seeking a Senior Applied Scientist with a proven track record of shipping at-scale intelligent systems. You will architect, design and ship intelligent systems assisting users writing code for Microsoft Excel using state-of-the-art techniques in large language models, deep learning, program synthesis and information retrieval. You will collaborate with world-class engineers in a fast-paced, dynamic and learning-oriented environment, creating AI applications that solve real-world problems for customers around the world.
Job Responsibility:
Conduct rigorous analysis to evaluate the performance of intelligent applications, identify areas for improvement, and iterate
Executing projects from design through implementation, experimentation and finally shipping to our users
Integrate experiments into production systems by implementing them and maintaining and optimizing their performance
Understand broad areas of research and techniques, as well as a knowledge of industry trends to apply this in the product
Prepare data for analysis by applying quality and technical constraints
Review data and suggest data to be included and excluded and address data quality problems
Assist with the development of usable datasets for modeling purposes and support the scaling of product ideas
Embody our culture and values
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ 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
OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related experience
OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
Microsoft Cloud Background Check
Nice to have:
1+ years working with Large Language Models
1+ years' experience in applying machine learning techniques and driving end-to-end AI product development
Demonstrated ability to work effectively end-to-end in a challenging technical problem domain
Experience with shipping internet scale, low latency and high availability
Experience with Microsoft Excel
Experience with python programming
Experience with Applications of Foundation Models, Domain Adaptation of Foundation Models
Experience with Prompt optimizations, Data Mining with language models, Agentic systems