Principal Applied Science Manager

Teknik, data och digitalt · Data, AI och analys · Datavetenskap · Maskininlärning · Artificiell intelligens

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Microsoft is seeking a Principal Applied Science Manager to lead a team of applied scientists in delivering AI-powered experiences for Microsoft Excel. This deeply technical leadership role requires expertise in state-of-the-art techniques like large language models and deep learning, along with a strong track record in people management and shipping intelligent systems at scale.

Ansvarsområden

Lead, grow, mentor, and inspire an inclusive, high-performing team of applied scientists.
Maintain a hands-on, builder-oriented approach, contributing directly to technical design, prototyping, experimentation, implementation, and production readiness.
Own the end-to-end technical and scientific direction for your team’s AI capabilities, from identifying customer scenarios to continuous improvement.
Translate product scenarios and customer needs into well-defined machine learning, LLM, retrieval, program synthesis, and agentic-system problems.
Drive projects from concept through implementation, experimentation, production integration, and successful release to customers.
Establish and maintain a high scientific and engineering bar for model quality, reliability, safety, latency, cost, and customer value.
Design and drive rigorous evaluation frameworks for intelligent applications.
Work directly with customers and partners to understand real-world usage patterns and translate insights into priorities.
Lead the preparation, curation, and quality assessment of datasets.
Stay current on relevant research, industry trends, and emerging techniques, applying them pragmatically.
Collaborate across the Office Product Group and broader Microsoft AI communities.

Krav

Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience OR Master's Degree AND 4+ years related experience OR Doctorate AND 3+ years related experience.
1+ year(s) of people management experience.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check.

Önskade kvalifikationer

4+ years of experience applying machine learning techniques and driving end-to-end AI product development from concept to shipping.
3+ years of experience working with large language models.
3+ years of experience as a manager of a successful and impactful data science/applied science team with 5 or more direct reports.
Demonstrated experience leading complex technical projects from problem definition and experimentation through production deployment and iteration.
Experience mentoring, leading, or managing applied scientists, data scientists, machine learning engineers, or other technical contributors.
Ability to work effectively across engineering, product management, design, and research partners in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment.
Ability to explain technical tradeoffs, evaluation results, and product implications to a broad set of stakeholders.
Demonstrated ability to lead end-to-end work in challenging technical domains.
Experience shipping internet-scale, low-latency, highly available intelligent systems.
Experience with Microsoft Excel or building AI experiences for productivity applications is a plus.
Experience applying foundation models, including domain adaptation, fine-tuning, and evaluation of LLMs or small language models.
Experience with prompt optimization, retrieval-augmented generation, data mining using language models, and agentic systems.
Experience with AI evaluation, including benchmark design, human evaluation, model-quality analysis, safety assessment, and telemetry-driven iteration.

Förmåner

Base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year.
Base pay range in San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Färdigheter

large language modelsdeep learninginformation retrievalagent orchestrationmachine learningretrieval-augmented generationfoundation models

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142 800–274 800 US$ · Förhandlingsbar

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