Senior Applied Scientist

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 2+ year(s) related experience
  • OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field
  • 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:

• Experience applying machine learning, NLP, or information retrieval techniques to search or recommendation problems. 
• Experience using data analysis and offline/online evaluation to diagnose metrics, user journeys, model behavior and improve product quality. 
• Applied ML engineering experience using Python and modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch.
• Hands-on experience with dense/vector retrieval and text embeddings, including bi-encoders, approximate nearest-neighbor search, contrastive training, or hard-negative training. 
• Familiarity with information retrieval fundamentals and retrieval evaluation, including metrics such as recall@k and nDCG, offline evaluation pipelines, and interpretation of A/B test results. 
• Experience fine-tuning or adapting transformer or large language models for a specific domain, including domain adaptation, distillation, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, and curation of clean in-domain training data. 
• Solid applied ML engineering skills in Python and PyTorch, with experience running large-scale training and evaluation jobs on cloud or GPU clusters. 

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Applied Sciences IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across United Kingdom is £ 74,700.00 - £ 122,600.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/united-kingdom-corporate-pay.html

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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