• Senior Applied Scientist

    Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA)


    Overview

     

    Microsoft is the leader in Healthcare AI. Dragon Copilot helps physicians, nurses, radiologists, and other healthcare professionals save time and improve outcomes for patients around the world. In this position you will drive core accuracy improvements to Dragon Copilot for nurses, including flowsheet population and note generation from nurse/patient conversations.

     

    We are seeking an Applied Scientist who is curious and self-driven, with strong research skills and comfortable defining a path towards high-level goals. You will analyze data, evaluate new ideas, ship production code and models, and generalize learnings for the broader product.

     

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    Responsibilities

    + Independently works to create product impact. Identifies approach, and applies, improves, or creates a research-backed solution (e.g., novel, data driven, scalable, extendable) to positively impact accuracy of Microsoft Dragon Copilot for nurses.

    + Brings new technology and approaches into production by applying long-term research efforts to solve immediate product needs.

    + Establishes collaborative relationships with relevant product and business groups inside or outside of Microsoft and provides expertise or technology to create business impact. Takes initiative and drives activities such as technology transfers attempts, standards organizations, filing patents, authoring white papers, developing or maintaining tools/services for internal Microsoft use, or consulting for product or business groups. May publish research to promote receiving new intellectual property for business impact.

    Qualifications

    Required Qualifications

    + 4+ years of data science experience

    + 4+ years of Python experience

    + Doctorate or Master's in Computer Science or related field

    Preferred Qualificiations

    + 2+ years of experience in healthcare AI or related field

    + 2+ years of experience training/fine tuning AI/ML models, preferably LLMs/SLMs.

    + 2+ years of experience building Generative AI pipelines, e.g. with RAG (Retrieval augmented generation).

    + 2+ years of experience with Azure Machine Learning (AML) pipelines

    + A record of publications in scientific venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, CVPR).

     

    Applied Sciences IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

     

    Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

     

    https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

     

    This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

     

    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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations. (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html)