# Senior Applied Scientist

**Company**: Microsoft AI
**Location**: Suzhou
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://microsoft.ai/job/senior-applied-scientist-27/
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_c00cb2cd-350

## Description

## Summary

Microsoft AI are looking for a talented Senior Applied Scientist at their Suzhou office. This role sits at the heart of strategic decision-making, turning market data into actionable insights for a company that's revolutionising AI technology. You'll work directly with leadership to shape the company's direction in the AI and search markets.

## About the Role

We're looking for passionate and experienced engineers and scientists to help us on our mission of employing deep learning to understand all the data on the web – the largest store of information in human history. With this understanding we power end-user experiences across a variety of NLP/Multi-modal related areas, especially RAG System powered by LLMs Generative answers with LLMs Build up the world-class AI systems with novel NLP techniques and engineering excellence. Explore cutting-edge AI technology and deliver both research and production impact.

## Accountabilities

- Drive core technologies and E2E production delivery by leveraging State-of-Art AI technologies.

- Address challenges in products through Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning approaches and transfer novel ideas to production applications.

- Develop deep learning models for Microsoft AI scenarios, including generative search and answers, knowledge experience, et al.

- Push the envelope on deep learning by: Defining problems and establishing metrics Gathering training data at scale Exploring model design and architecture Exploring learning objectives and tasks.

## The Candidate we're looking for

**Experience:**

- 4+ years of working experience in NLP/search related areas.

**Technical skills:**

- Experiences in applying deep learning, LLM, RAG techniques and drive E2E AI product development.

**Personal attributes:**

- Passionate and self-motivated.

- Good communication skills, both verbal and written.

## Benefits

- Work from the office at least four days per week.

- Health and wellbeing benefits.

- Professional development opportunities.

- Financial benefits (bonus, equity, pension, etc.).

- Cultural perks (team events, office amenities, etc.).

## Skills

### Required
- deep learning
- LLM
- RAG techniques
- E2E AI product development
- NLP/search related areas

### Nice to have
- problem-solving skills
- ability to work independently