Senior Applied Scientist
Microsoft · Posted Sep 24
Software, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and hardware services
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About the role
The Word Mobile and Word Copilot team in Noida is infusing AI into the core of Microsoft Word to transform how people create, edit, understand, and collaborate on documents across phones, tablets, web, and desktop. 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, including mobile-first Copilot entry points, rewriting from a selection, contextual suggestions, and multi-turn document creation. You will work with Work IQ to ground results in the files, meetings, emails, chats, people, and organizational context a user is permitted to access, shipping resilient AI capabilities at global scale with enterprise security and governance built in.
What you will do
- 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 signals—including documents, meetings, emails, chats, people, and organizational context—while 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.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 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.
- 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
- Bachelor's 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 Master's 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.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is a multinational technology company that develops, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products, services, and hardware devices. Best known for its Windows operating systems, Microsoft 365 productivity suite, and Xbox gaming consoles, the company has expanded heavily into enterprise cloud computing via Azure and advanced artificial intelligence solutions. As one of the world's most valuable public enterprises, it empowers individuals and businesses globally through innovative digital transformation.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 228,000+ employees
- Founded
- April 4, 1975
- Location
- Redmond, Washington, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
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Chief Financial Officer
Vice Chair and President
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