Senior Applied Scientist Bangalore Karnataka India Date postedAug 01 2025 Job number1854651 Work siteUp to 50 work from home Travel0-25 Role typeIndividual Contributor ProfessionResearch Applied Data Sciences DisciplineApplied Sciences Employment typeFull-Time Overview Do you want to be part of a team which delivers innovative products and machine learning solutions across Microsoft to hundreds of millions of users every month Microsoft Turing team is an innovative engineering and applied research team working on state-of-the-art deep learning models large language models and pioneering conversational search experiences The team spearheads the platform and innovation for conversational search and the core copilot experiences across Microsoft s ecosystem including BizChat Office and Windows As a Senior Applied Scientist in the Turing team you will be involved in tight timeline-based hands on data science activity and work including training models creating evaluation sets building infrastructure for training and evaluation and more 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 Qualifications Required Qualifications Bachelor s Degree in Statistics Econometrics Computer Science Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field AND 5 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 industrial experience coding in C C C Java or Python Prior experience with data analysis or understanding looking at data from a large scale systems to identify patterns or create evaluation datasets Familiarity with common machine learning deep learning frameworks and concepts using use of LLMs prompting Experience in pytorch or tensorflow is a bonus Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries 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 Solid ability and effectiveness working end-to-end in a challenging technical problem domain plan design execution continuous release and service operation Some prior experience in applying deep learning techniques and drive end-to-end AI product development Search Recommendation NLP Document Understanding etc Prior experience with Azure or any other cloud pipelines or execution graphs Self-driven results oriented high integrity ability to work collaboratively solve problems with groups find win win solutions and celebrate successes Customer End-result Metrics driven in design and development Keen ability and motivation to learn enter current domains and manage through ambiguity Solid publication track records at top conferences like ACL EMNLP SIGKDD AAAI WSDM COLING WWW NIPS ICASSP etc M365Core Responsibilities As an Applied Scientist on our team you ll be responsible for and will engage in Driving projects from design through implementation experimentation and finally shipping to our users This requires deep dive into data to identify gaps come up with heuristics and possible solutions using LLMs to create the right model or evaluation prompts and setup the engineering pipeline or infrastructure to run them Come up with evaluation techniques datasets criteria and metrics for model evaluations These are often SOTA models or metrics datasets Hands on own the fine-tuning use of language models including dataset creation filtering review and continuous iteration This requires working in a diverse geographically distributed team environment where collaboration and innovation are valued You will have an opportunity for direct impact on design functionality security performance scalability manageability and supportability of Microsoft products that use our deep learning technology Benefits perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work Industry leading healthcare Educational resources Discounts on products and services Savings and investments Maternity and paternity leave Generous time away Giving programs Opportunities to network and connect Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry citizenship color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information immigration status marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran or military status race ethnicity religion sex including pregnancy sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances If you need assistance and or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations

📌 Senior Applied Scientist (Karnataka)
🏢 Microsoft
📍 Karnataka