Senior Applied Scientist
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Job Summary
Imagine the possibilities when AI is infused into the core of Microsoft Wordan application people use every day to share ideas shape them with others and turn them into reality. Join the Word Mobile and Word Copilot team in Noida to help transform how people create edit understand and collaborate on documents across phones tablets web and desktop. You will work on experiences ranging from the foundational capabilities of a world-class word processor to new conversational and agentic ways of writing including mobile-first Copilot entry points direct rewriting from a selection contextual suggestions and multi-turn document creation and refinement.
As a Senior Applied Scientist you will develop and evaluate models prompts retrieval strategies and intelligent experiences that connect natural-language interaction with the Word canvas. You will help Copilot use Work IQ to reason over the files meetings emails chats people and organizational context a user is permitted to access producing grounded and relevant results with enterprise security and governance built a startup-like customer-focused environment you will partner with product design engineering Microsoft Research and teams across Word and Microsoft 365 learn from customer feedback and product telemetry and ship resilient AI capabilities at global scale while accounting for mobile constraints such as limited screen space latency intermittent connectivity and fast task completion.
Microsofts mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect integrity and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
- Develop and improve AI models prompting strategies retrieval pipelines and evaluation methods for Word Mobile and Word Copilot scenarios spanning document creation authoring comprehension editing and collaboration.
- Design grounded experiences that use Work IQ signalsincluding documents meetings emails chats people and organizational contextwhile respecting permissions security compliance and responsible AI requirements.
- Build mobile-first Copilot experiences for drafting rewriting summarizing explaining structuring and refining content while preserving the precision trust and rich document semantics expected from a world-class word processor.
- Partner with engineering product and design teams across Word and Microsoft 365 to integrate flight monitor and maintain models and agent capabilities across iOS Android web and desktop surfaces including features and dependencies that span teams and geographies.
- Create rigorous offline and online evaluations for quality grounding safety latency reliability and user satisfaction; investigate failures through solid problem-solving and debugging practices and translate findings into model and product improvements.
- Use customer feedback product telemetry service monitoring and experimentation results to identify emerging authoring needs validate hypotheses and prioritize high-impact improvements for Word and mobile workflows.
- Communicate scientific insights clearly contribute to design and architecture reviews grow shared team knowledge influence cross-functional decisions and create reusable methods publications patents or technical artifacts where appropriate.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors 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 Masters 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.
Additional or preferred qualifications
Other Requirements:Ability to meet Microsoft customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree in Statistics Computer Science Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field AND 8 years related experience (e.g. statistics predictive analytics machine learning or applied research).
- OR Masters Degree in a related field AND 7 years related experience.
- OR Doctorate in a related field AND 6 years related experience.
- OR equivalent experience.
- Solid programming skills in Python and hands-on experience with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
- Experience developing adapting or evaluating large language models multimodal models retrieval-augmented systems or agentic AI applications.
- Demonstrated success translating applied research into reliable production services including experimentation evaluation debugging and performance optimization.
- Publication record or significant industry impact in natural language processing multimodal AI human-AI interaction information retrieval or machine learning.
- Experience building grounded AI systems over enterprise or user-context data including retrieval quality citations permission-aware access safety and responsible AI considerations.
- Experience with mobile or cross-platform product constraints online experimentation telemetry analysis and quality measurement for customer-facing AI experiences.
- Solid collaboration and technical leadership skills with a growth mindset customer focus and commitment to inclusive product development.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.
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