Senior Applied Scientist - Copilot Shared Services

Join an innovative team that delivers core Copilot Shared Services for our flagship Office Apps such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Our mission is to deliver the next generation of personalized Copilot experiences leveraging best of breed Microsoft technologies across Copilot Platform, Microsoft Substrate, and beyond. Consider this opportunity to advance our approach in ways that benefits millions of people. We will achieve this through innovation and vision for our next-gen solutions, connecting key partnerships across Microsoft, and influencing best-of-breed advancements leveraging AI technology.

• Define, lead, and help to conduct research projects and workstreams that directly benefit our customers, drive positive usage, and improve Microsoft’s core productivity products.
• Formulation of advanced prompt engineering, selecting and fine-tuning LLMs, designing and managing evaluation datasets, develop concepts for more efficient and accurate solutions, and researching and assessing different architectures and approaches from across the M365 ecosystem.
• Collaborate and coordinate with people in a range of roles, including researchers, engineers, product managers, designers, and product leaders and other key product stakeholders.
• Generate ML / AI based models that can be shipped to customers to improve their experience and used internally to generate data insights to shape the features and products we ship to customers.
• Teach, guide, and tutor colleagues without research backgrounds in state-of-the-art techniques and research best practices.
• Iterate on existing hypotheses to deliver world-class features.
• Share project outcomes and insights 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.

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

• Industry leading healthcare
• Educational resources
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect

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