# Senior Applied Scientist

**Company**: Microsoft
**Location**: Mountain View
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**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 seek a Senior Applied Scientist with expertise in Machine Learning, Generative AI, Agentic Modeling, Data Science, or related areas. The ideal candidate should be passionate about generative modeling, experimental prompt tuning, and large-scale modeling optimization. The candidate should have hands-on experience on working with LLMs, or SLMs such as Qwen, Llama or its variants.

Microsoft AI unites product, engineering, and science teams to advance Bing and Consumer Copilot, aiming to provide the best generative search experience through advanced AI/ML technologies and innovative AI features.

As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will be responsible for building and owning production machine learning models to improve results. You will work hands-on with SOTA generative models like Qwen, Llama, Mistral, GPT and others, to deliver big impact. You will find insights and form hypothesis on large-scale data with various machine learning, feature engineering, statistical, and data mining techniques: e.g. regression, classification, NLP, optimization.

Professional working experience on prompt engineering with large LLMs like GPT, Gemini, Claude etc. is required. You will design experiments, understand the resulting data, and produce actionable, trustworthy conclusions from them. You will wrangle large amounts of data (think petabytes) using various tools, including open-source ones and your own. All programming languages are welcome, especially Python, C#, R, C++, Java, and SQL.

Taking complex problems and the associated data and giving the answers in a concise form to assist senior executives in making key business decisions is a key responsibility of this role.

## Skills

### Required
- Machine Learning
- Generative AI
- Agentic Modeling
- Data Science
- Python
- C#
- R
- C++
- Java
- SQL

### Nice to have
- LLMs
- SLMs
- Qwen
- Llama
- Mistral
- GPT

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