Microsoft
AI

Senior Applied Scientist

Microsoft · Cambridge, ENG, GB

Actively hiring Posted 4 months ago

Role overview

  • Has solid experience with the deep technical aspects of research and engineering in Artificial Intelligence, Language Models, Machine Learning, or Speech Recognition.
  • Can communicate clearly complex technical concepts, as well as product needs and priorities.
  • Thrives in an environment where people collaborate across different disciplines, teams and geographies to deliver innovation to customers.
  • Can inspire without authority across teams and motivate individuals to work together towards common goals.
  • Can navigate uncertainty and create clarity and focus to execute towards a common vision.

Responsibilities

  • Research, design, implement, adapt, train, fine tune or distil state-of-the-art multimodal models with the aim to support human communication in Teams.
  • Prepare datasets, design and implement metrics and optimize model efficiency and performance.
  • Collaborate closely with other groups (research, engineering and product groups) within the wider Microsoft organization, to create the next generation of AI innovation in our products and services.
  • Embody Microsoft culture and values.
  • Undergraduate or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field.
  • 2+ years practical ML Engineering and Python coding experience leveraging PyTorch, TensorFlow or similar framework, within large code repositories and in collaboration with additional team members.
  • 2+ years’ practical experience in designing, training or fine-tuning transformer-based models or LLMs
  • 2+ years’ experience of working with language, transcription, audio or multimodal applications (e.g., combining audio and video, text and audio).
  • Excellent analytical, coding, communication, and collaborative skills.

Preferred qualifications

  • PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field.
  • Industry experience delivering real-world solutions.
  • Experience with large-scale distributed training and deployment.
  • Experience with reinforcement learning of language models, quantization and other model optimization techniques.
  • Experience with audio (speech to speech) foundation models, multimodal conversational models.
  • Experience with AML/ADO pipelines and CI tools.
  • System development skills spanning rapid prototypes to production systems with complex dependencies.
  • A track record of innovation in AI evidenced by scientific publications, patents or contributions to product features

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