Senior Applied Scientist and Principal Applied Scientist (Multiple Positions)
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Sep 21, 2025 | |
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OverviewAI has created an unprecedented opportunity to make work better for hundreds of millions of people. Microsoft's productivity division is hiring Senior and Principal Applied Scientists to help ensure we maximize this amazing opportunity. Our scientists collaborate closely with people across Microsoft's product teams and Microsoft Research to see their ideas realized in products and services like M365 Copilot, Word, Teams, Windows, Surface, OneDrive, SharePoint, Windows, Surface, Outlook, and PowerPoint. They also contribute back to the scientific community through peer-reviewed publications at top venues, scientific presentations, and beyond.We are looking for Senior Applied Scientists and Principal Applied Scientists (Multiple Positions) who are creative, self-driven, curious, people-oriented and comfortable defining a path through ambiguity towards high-level goals. Research areas of interest include but are certainly not limited to reinforcement learning, agentic systems multimodal modeling, post-training techniques and their application, human-centered artificial intelligence (AI), domain-specific large language model (LLM) applications (e.g. long-form writing assistance), personalization, computational social science, memory, agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), real-time AI systems, collaborative AI, privacy-preserving AI, trustworthy AI, data-centric AI, AI flywheels, and multilingual AI.Microsoft's 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.
ResponsibilitiesDefining, leading, and helping to conduct research projects that simultaneously advance the state-of-the-art and directly benefit Microsoft's core productivity products.Shape product direction by integrating rigorous scientific methods into the product lifecycle.Collaborating and coordinatingwith people in a range of roles, including researchers,engineers, product managers, designers, and other key product stakeholders.Servingas a bridge between research and product.Teaching, guiding, and tutoring colleagues without research backgrounds in state-of-the-art techniques and research best practices.Sharingyour researchwith others via a range of means, including publication,to enable others to build onyourwork and tocontribute tothe understanding of our productsas cutting-edge and science driven.Effectively communicating with product leaders (and often Microsoft researchers (MSR)) throughout the planning and execution of applied research projects, which often involves learning and teaching complex concepts. | |