Senior Applied Scientist
Redmond, WA 
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Posted 12 days ago
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OverviewWe're a company of learn-it-alls rather than know-it-alls and our culture is centered around embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Does this sound like you? Learn more about our cultural attributes. Are you ready to join us and create the future? Come as you are, do what you love-start your journey with us today! Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of people from every corner of the world. As a Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft, you will conduct applied research and lead collaborations that yield innovative solutions, practical data, algorithms, and prototypes that advance the state-of-the-art in applied sciences and engineering, as well as contribute to the resolution of tangible industry challenges. This opportunity will enable you to define research objectives in a specific area of application and initiate the design, development, execution, and implementation of a research agenda to bridge academic knowledge with industry needs. You will provide expertise to product or business groups and may create long-term business opportunities through research outcomes, focusing on delivering immediate product enhancements and demonstrating a clear path to market application. 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.
ResponsibilitiesYou will master one or more subareas and gain expertise in a broad area of research, including applicable research techniques. You'll also gain deep knowledge of a service, platform, or domain, and identify product needs by sharing the latest industry trends and applied technologies.You will review business requirements and incorporate research to meet business goals. You'll provide strategic direction for the kinds of data used to solve problems and apply deep subject matter knowledge to support business impact.You will participate in onboarding of team members and assist in developing academics to be members of multidiscipline teams. You'll identify new research talent to join Microsoft and collaborate with the academic community to develop the recruiting pipeline.You will document work in progress and experimentation results, and share findings to promote innovation. You'll also use your deep understanding of fairness and bias to contribute to ethics and privacy policies related to research processes and data collection.

 

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Regular, Full Time
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