Senior Applied Scientist

About the Role

Join the Microsoft Turing team and help shape the future of enterprise productivity with AI. This role is part of a fast-paced, high-visibility, diverse team delivering innovative products and machine learning solutions across Microsoft to hundreds of millions of users. The Microsoft Turing team works on state-of-the-art deep learning models, large language models (LLMs), and pioneering conversational search experiences. We build the core systems behind Microsoft 365 Copilot, transforming how organizations work every day and spearheading the platform and innovation for multiple core Copilot experiences across Microsoft’s ecosystem. Project assignments are shaped by your interests, experience, and strengths.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with applied scientists and engineers on designing and building backend platform capabilities and core Copilot scenarios.
• Drive projects from design through implementation, experimentation, and shipping to users.
• Own development of state-of-the-art machine learning, deep learning algorithms and techniques leveraging text, images, and video for analyzing and transforming content to build world-class AI experiences.
• Design and develop fundamental technologies and drive the applied research that powers next-generation AI experiences.
• Work in a diverse geographically distributed team environment where collaboration and innovation are valued.
• Have an opportunity for direct impact on design, functionality, security, performance, scalability, manageability, and supportability of Microsoft products that use our deep learning technology.

Project Assignments Include

• Developing advanced AI capabilities, including container execution and image generation.
• Building the core orchestration and runtime systems for Microsoft 365 Copilot.
• Enabling multimodal, real-time, and agentic interactions.
• Pioneering AI-driven computer and tool use at enterprise scale.

Requirements & Tech Stack

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

• A Bachelor’s/Master’s/Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or other related technical areas (including mathematics and physics).
• 4+ years of industrial experience coding in C++, C#, C, Java or Python.
• 4+ years of experience in applying deep learning techniques and driving end-to-end AI product development (e.g., Search, Recommendation, NLP, Document Understanding).
• 2+ years of experience with common machine learning, deep learning frameworks like PyTorch/Tensorflow.

Additional Preferred Skills & Attributes

• Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.
• Solid ability and effectiveness working end-to-end in a challenging technical problem domain (plan, design, execution, continuous release, and service operation).
• Experience with shipping internet scale, low latency and high throughput systems AI products.
• Self-driven, results-oriented, high integrity, ability to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes.
• Customer/End-result/Metrics driven in design and development.
• Keen ability and motivation to learn, enter new domains, and manage through ambiguity.
• Solid publication track records at top conferences like ACL, EMNLP, SIGKDD, AAAI, WSDM, COLING, WWW, NIPS, ICASSP, etc.

Other Requirements

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
• This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.