Senior Applied Scientist – Agent Cloud

Microsoft is a company where innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers to levels they cannot achieve anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness in a cloud-enabled world. The Business & Industry Copilots group is a rapidly growing organization that is responsible for the Microsoft Dynamics 365 suite of products, Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, AI Builder, Microsoft Industry Solution and more.

Microsoft is considered one of the leaders in Software as a Service in the world of business applications and this organization is at the heart of how business applications are designed and delivered. We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist – Agent Tools to join our team!
This is an exciting time to join our group and work on something highly strategic to Microsoft. Microsoft Agent Tools is the platform to develop tools for AI agents with high reliability and scale. This team also builds a suite of microservices to create/execute/evaluate agent tools, and perform NL-based querying of user-supplied and public knowledge datasets. You will be a part of a team of engineers who thrive on solving complex problems at scale while doing it with impeccable quality.
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.

• Collaborate with AI researchers to design and build end-to-end ML systems, tuned for human-human and human-AI interactions.
• Design and develop ML pipelines involving data cleaning, feature engineering, model training, and evaluation.
• Work across the product lifecycle from prototyping to shipping production-grade code optimized for performance and memory and updating the deployed models based on A/B testing.
• Remain up to date with the latest advancements, trends, and research and contribute towards our IP portfolio.
• Data science – Research and develop synthetic data generation strategies.
• Proactively follow state-of-the-art research and share latest work, write papers, attend conferences and share knowledge in the wider team.

Required Qualifications: 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.

3 years of experience in statistics, predictive analytics and research.

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.

Master’s Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6 years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3 years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR equivalent experience. 3 years experience creating publications (e.g., patents, libraries, peer-reviewed academic papers).

Experience presenting at conferences or other events in the outside research/industry community as an invited speaker. 3…