# Senior Applied Scientist

**Company**: Microsoft
**Location**: Bengaluru
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: MSFT
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2283

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## Description

We are the Data & Applied Sciences team for Microsoft Teams, based in Bangalore, India. Our mission is to leverage generative AI, advanced machine learning, deep learning, and data science to drive informed decision-making, improve product performance, and maximize business impact.

You will work as part of a team that brings together talent in the areas of machine learning, generative AI, natural language processing, information retrieval, software engineering, data analytics, and ML operations.

**Responsibilities**

You will be expected to work on many levels – from mining massive datasets for identifying opportunities, through designing and implementing your solutions into our offline and live production systems, defining appropriate metrics to measure their effectiveness, conducting A/B experiments and rigorous quality evaluation, as well as mentoring team members.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Building models and featurization pipelines.

- Measuring and improving model performance with feedback loop and reinforcement learning; working with product teams on appropriate designs of AI-powered experiences.

- Setting up, running, and analyzing experiments.

- Prototyping new approaches and developing new algorithms, ML techniques such as modeling using deep learning, advanced ML models, and privacy-preserving algorithms.

- Working with other scientists, engineers, and UX experts on the detailed design and implementation of end-to-end solutions, including data-pipelines for machine learning, deployments, performance monitoring, and analysis, and continual refinement via feedback loop from real users.

- Staying abreast of current technology trends and research development in relevant areas inside and outside of the company, including attending academic and industrial conferences.

- Partnering with Development teams, Microsoft Research, and Product Teams.

**Qualifications**

**Required/Minimum Qualifications:**

- 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 (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).

- OR 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).

- OR equivalent experience.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Vision, or related field.

- Publications in top-tier ML/IR/NLP/CV conferences would be a plus.

- Awareness and understanding of emerging research and technologies.

- Experience in large-scale data mining and cloud computing.

- Analytical, problem-solving, programming, and debugging skills.

## Skills

### Required
- machine learning
- generative AI
- natural language processing
- information retrieval
- software engineering
- data analytics
- ML operations

### Nice to have
- Ph.D. in Computer Science
- Artificial Intelligence
- Statistics
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Vision
- large-scale data mining
- cloud computing

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