Senior Applied Scientist
MicrosoftRemote (Redmond, United States)
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- $119,800–$234,700 a year
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Developing advanced AI capabilities, including container execution and image generation. You will work closely with applied scientists and engineers on designing and building both backend platform capabilities and core Copilot scenarios aimed at delighting our customers. You will drive projects from design through implementation, experimentation and finally shipping to our users. You will own development of state-of-the-art machine learning, deep learning algorithms and techniques leveraging text, images, and video for analyzing and transforming content to build world-class AI experiences that have the potential to transform billions of people's lives.
You will design and develop fundamental technologies and drive the applied research that power next-generation AI experiences. You will work in a diverse geographically distributed team environment where collaboration and innovation are valued. 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. A Bachelor's/Master's/Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or other related technical areas (including mathematics and physics). 4+ years of industrial experience coding in C++, C#, C, Java or Python. 4+ years of experience in applying deep learning techniques and drive end-to-end AI product development (Search, Recommendation, NLP, Document Understanding, etc). 2+ years of experience with common machine learning, deep learning frameworks like Pytorch/Tensorflow.
Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries. Experience with shipping internet scale, low latency and high throughput systems AI products.
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- Applied Scientist postings that list pay show a $197K median (520 postings)
- Pay benchmark
- Microsoft postings that list pay show a $177K median (4,009 postings)
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- Microsoft has H-1B labor condition applications on file with the U.S. Department of Labor (at least 10,649 filings, fiscal years 2025–2026). An LCA is not a visa approval. H-1B sponsors hiring now
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