# Member of Technical Staff - Data Scientist

**Company**: Microsoft AI
**Location**: Mountain View
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD $119,800 – $234,700 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://microsoft.ai/job/member-of-technical-staff-data-scientist/
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_e92bcb16-a28

## Description

## Summary

Microsoft AI are looking for a talented Member of Technical Staff - Data Scientist at their Mountain View 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 market.

## About the Role

We're looking for data scientists to help build the next generation of post-training methods for frontier models at Microsoft AI. You'll join a small, high-impact team working across all stages of post-training, with a focus on evaluation design, high-quality training data, and scalable data pipelines for state-of-the-art foundation models. In this role, you'll help turn raw model capability into reliable, aligned, and measurable performance improvements, directly shaping how frontier models behave in real-world deployments.

## Accountabilities

- Design evaluations of advanced model capabilities and use them to drive rapid, high-signal iteration loops

- Work with vendors to produce high quality evaluation and training data

## The Candidate we're looking for

**Experience:**

- 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

**Technical skills:**

- Deep experience with LLMs, either training them or applying them in production

- Developed production-scale data pipelines for synthesizing, curating, or processing large quantities of data

**Personal attributes:**

- Clear written and verbal communication, and the ability to collaborate effectively with researchers, engineers and other disciplines

## Benefits

- Competitive salary

- Comprehensive benefits package

- Opportunities for professional growth and development

## Skills

### Required
- data science
- machine learning
- artificial intelligence
- programming languages
- data pipelines

### Nice to have
- SOTA results in large-scale training
- inference
- evaluation