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Principal Applied Scientist
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Sep 21, 2025 | |
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OverviewDo you want to help build innovative tools that empower AI to achieve their full potential? Are you passionate about pushing the boundaries of what AI can do? Does the thought of being able to influence the product through predictive insights & recommendations excite you?If so, we would like to hear from you! The future of work is being redefined with AI. Microsoft is leading this transformation with M365, Copilot Studio, and Azure AI Foundry. As aPrincipal Applied Scientistin Microsoft's Business and Industry Copilots group, your core mission will be to deliver exciting innovation in Microsoft Copilot. We are looking for candidates who are creative, self-driven, curious, people-orientedand comfortable defining a path through uncertain towards Different goals. In this role, you will experiment with fine-tune models, to build end-to-end AI First SaaS product scenarios enabling enterprise productivity and taking actions while ensuring enterprise security and governance capabilities for AI. We are looking for an individual who has experience in collaborating with research and product engineering teams to deliver innovative product solutions. This can range from alignments with stakeholders, working together to build and fine-tune models, developing advanced RAG techniques, to coming up with ways to build custom generative AI architectures for specific product needs. 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.
ResponsibilitiesReviewing business and product requirements, incorporating research, and providing strategic direction for problem solving, and depending on situation also hands-on prototyping applied science development techniques to create or develop novel applications of AI in products. Ensuring scientific rigor, supporting the development of methods, and applying your experience to support business impact. Collaborating with stakeholders to gather and understand user requirements and expectations. Seeking and incorporating continuous feedback from users and stakeholders to iteratively improve designs and solutions. Documenting work and experimentation results (offline experimentation as well as in production online experimentation) and share findings to promote innovation.Providing guidance when capturing processes and contributing to ethics and privacy policies related to research processes and data collection. Facilitating design meetings, creating design documents, and ensuring alignment with project goals. Designing system architecture that meets security, compliance, and scalability requirements. Leading implementation and deployment of solutions, ensuring they meet quality standards. Translating project vision into actionable milestones and guiding the team in project estimation and planning. | |