Senior Applied Scientist - Microsoft Word Copilot

Come join Microsoft Word Copilot to work on state-of-the-art services, AI solutions and platforms and deliver the next generation of intelligent productivity experiences used by hundreds of millions of users daily! We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist who can help us further grow our products, business, and culture!  

At Microsoft Word Copilot team in Microsoft Development Center Serbia (MDCS), we have been focusing on reimagining and empowering Microsoft Word Office productivity through AI-powered user experiences and services built across core Microsoft Office applications. Microsoft Copilot combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with your organizational data, having native integration with Office apps to streamline your productivity: content generation, app navigation, comprehension and more. The team is relentlessly focused on making AI and tech work for people!  

Applied Science team within Office Serbia is focused on end-to-end building and deploying state-of-the-art deep learning models for various AI applications across Microsoft Office suite of products. The team works with product and research teams around the globe to design, build, and evaluate LLM-based features, agentic systems, multimodal models, and deep learning solutions at scale. If you are passionate about applying cutting edge technology to positively impact the lives of millions of people, this is the job for you.  

• Drive intelligent experiences, projects, and open-ended problems through their entire lifecycle from ideation through implementation, experimentation and finally to world-wide availability. 

• Develop, adapt and deploy Generative AI and deep learning models in real-world product scenarios. 

• Demonstrate rigor in key scientific procedures in AI based development process, including data, training, prompt engineering and evaluation methodologies. 

• Define and implement robust evaluation frameworks and metrics, in partnership with product teams, to measure the quality of a wide range of AI features and inform decision-making and the design of AI-powered experiences. 

• Lead experimentation through offline evaluation and A/B testing to measure user and business impact 

• Collaborate with other research and engineering teams to adopt and advance state-of-the-art technologies. 

• Follow strong engineering and documentation practices; participate actively in code reviews, bug/issue triage with the feature teams, and support well informed decisions towards business goals.  

• Foster a healthy and inclusive team environment; provide technical leadership and mentorship to other applied scientists.  

• Maintain, nurture and build relationships with international teams within Microsoft. Build strong cross-team partnerships and multiply impact across the team. 

• Stay current with research trends and influence product and technical strategy. Qualifications