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About the Role
The CoreAI organization at Microsoft builds the end-to-end Artificial Intelligence (AI) stack, driving innovation in Azure AI and powering flagship products. We are seeking a Principal Applied Scientist to develop machine learning techniques for safety, alignment, and trustworthy AI, collaborating across teams to build and maintain responsible AI systems at scale.
Responsibilities
- Develop machine learning techniques that push the boundaries of safety, alignment, and trustworthy AI.
- Collaborate across product, research, and engineering teams.
- Design, build, and maintain responsible AI systems.
- Manage systems from early-stage development and experimentation to production, monitoring, and continuous iteration.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or related field AND 6+ years related experience OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or related field AND 4+ years related experience OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or related field AND 3+ years related experience OR equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
- Must pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Skills
- Experience and familiarity with large language models (LLMs).
- Solid foundation in large distributed systems, algorithms, and software engineering principles.
- Hands-on experience with deep learning and transformer-based models.
- Excel at problem-solving and analytics.
- Proactive approach to challenges.
- Experience with methods for training and fine-tuning LLMs, including distillation, supervised fine-tuning, and policy optimization.
Location
- U.S.
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- IC5
- IC6
- 5+ years of experience in a research/ML engineering or an applied research scientist position, ideally with a focus on AI safety.
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or related field
- Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or related field
- Doctorate in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or related field
- Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related field.
Salary/Compensations
- USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (U.S. base pay range for IC5)
- USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area base pay range for IC5)
- USD $165,600 - $296,400 per year (U.S. base pay range for IC6)
- USD $220,800 - $331,200 per year (San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area base pay range for IC6)
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
About the Company
- Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
- Employees come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize shared goals.
- Daily work is built on values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive.
Equal Opportunity
- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.
- Assistance with religious accommodations and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process is available.