# Senior Applied Scientist

**Company**: Microsoft
**Location**: Redmond, Washington
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $119,800 - $234,700 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: MSFT
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2283

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to join our M365 Core team, focusing on Frontier, a new product that fine-tunes large language models (LLMs) on tenant data.

The ideal candidate will have research skills and experience in language model training, data pipelines, and shipping high-quality models.

Responsibilities:

- Design and execute training pipelines for large language models post-training.

- Develop experiments to demonstrate the effectiveness of LLM-based solutions.

- Implement inference solutions incorporating post-trained models.

- Collaborate with the team to ship solutions to customers.

- Document experiments and communicate results.

- Mentor early-career team members.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctoral degree in a relevant field (Statistics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, etc.).

- Relevant experience in statistics, predictive analytics, or research.

- Ability to meet Microsoft security screening requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Master's or Doctoral degree in a relevant field with additional experience.

- Experience in creating publications, presenting at conferences, and conducting research.

- Familiarity with Python, ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch), and reinforcement learning.

- Experience training/fine-tuning AI/ML models, particularly LLMs/SLMs.

The typical base pay range for this role in the U.S. is $119,800 - $234,700 per year, with variations in certain locations.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- ML frameworks
- reinforcement learning
- large language models
- data pipelines

### Nice to have
- PyTorch
- LLMs/SLMs
- research
- publications
- conference presentations

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