# Applied Scientist 2

**Company**: Microsoft AI
**Location**: Suzhou

**Apply**: https://microsoft.ai/job/applied-scientist-2-4/
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_c86b11de-5a2

## Description

## Summary

Microsoft AI are looking for a talented Applied Scientist 2 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 applications. You'll work directly with leadership to shape the company's direction in the AI and machine learning markets.

## About the Role

We're building the next-generation Grounding Service that powers the latest AI applications—chat assistants, copilots, and autonomous agents—with factual, cited, and trustworthy responses. Our platform stitches together retrieval, reasoning, and real-time data so that large language models stay anchored to enterprise knowledge, the public web, and proprietary tools. As a team, we value curiosity, pragmatic rigor, and inclusive collaboration. We believe great systems emerge when scientists and engineers co-design metrics, models, and infrastructure—and when we obsess over customer impact, privacy, and safety.

## Accountabilities

- Owns the science roadmap for grounding—including retrieval, re-ranking, attribution, and reasoning—driving initiatives from problem framing to production impact.

- Designs and evolves state-of-the-art retrieval and RAG orchestration across documents, tables, code, and images.

## The Candidate we're looking for

**Experience:**

- Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).

**Technical skills:**

- Solid coding skills and solid foundation in machine learning, with the ability to implement and optimize models effectively.

**Personal attributes:**

- Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, make principled trade-offs, and deliver measurable impact in cross-functional, fast-paced settings.

## Benefits

- Competitive salary and benefits package.

- Opportunities for professional growth and development.

- Collaborative and dynamic work environment.