New 
Senior Applied Scientist - Copilot Shared Services
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Oct 08, 2025 | |
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OverviewJoin an innovative team that delivers core Copilot Shared Services for our flagship Office Apps such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Our mission is to deliver the next generation of personalized Copilot experiences leveraging best of breed Microsoft technologies across Copilot Platform, Microsoft Substrate, and beyond. Consider this opportunity to advance our approach in ways that benefits millions of people. We will achieve this through innovation and vision for our next-gen solutions, connecting key partnerships across Microsoft, and influencing best-of-breed advancements leveraging AI technology.Within Copilot Shared Services, we apply new foundational LLMs, create advanced ML techniques, develop rich algorithms, and leverage AI and the skills of Applied Science to accelerate developmental advancements and improve quality of our customer experiences. We invest in agentic solutions and are working to advance methods of evaluation and automated customer solutions.We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to join our team to help establish the vision of the future. In this role, you'll work closely with engineers, program managers, data scientists and applied scientists to improve our approach to personalized experiences, best leverage and fine tune foundational models, advance evaluation techniques, and improve engineering productivity.If you're excited about an opportunity to advance applied AI and making a difference in the future of Copilot for Office apps, we'd love to hear from you.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.
ResponsibilitiesDefine, lead, and help to conduct research projects and workstreams that directlybenefitour customers, drive positive usage, and improve Microsoft's core productivity products.Formulation of advanced prompt engineering, selecting and fine-tuning LLMs, designing and managing evaluation datasets, develop concepts for more efficient and accurate solutions, and researching and assessing different architectures and approaches from across the M365 ecosystem.Collaborate and coordinatewith people in a range of roles, including researchers,engineers, product managers, designers, and product leaders and other key product stakeholders.Generate ML / AI based models that can be shipped to customers to improve their experience and used internally to generate data insights to shape the features and products we ship to customers.Teach, guide, and tutor colleagues without research backgrounds instate-of-the-arttechniques and research best practices.Iterate on existing hyptohesis to deliver world-class features.Share project outcomes and insights with others via a range of means, including publication,to enable others to build onyourwork and tocontribute tothe understanding of our productsascutting-edgeand science driven.Embody the Microsoft culture and values. | |