Principal Applied Science Manager

1 Month ago • 6-15 Years • Research & Development

Job Summary

Job Description

The Principal Applied Science Manager at Microsoft's Turing team will lead and contribute to the development and deployment of innovative machine learning solutions. Responsibilities include managing a team of applied scientists, driving projects from conception to shipping, creating evaluation datasets and metrics for cutting-edge models (LLMs), and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The role demands hands-on experience with data analysis, model fine-tuning, and a strong understanding of deep learning frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow. The successful candidate will be responsible for the overall outcome and growth of their team members.
Must have:
  • 8+ years industrial experience (C++, C#, Java, Python)
  • 6+ years people management
  • 5+ years delivering team outcomes
  • Data analysis & understanding
  • Machine learning & deep learning
  • LLM experience
Good to have:
  • Master's/Doctorate degree
  • Experience with PyTorch/TensorFlow

Job Details

Overview

Do you want to be part of a team which delivers innovative products and machine learning solutions across Microsoft to hundreds of millions of users every month? Microsoft Turing team is an innovative engineering and applied research team working on state-of-the-art deep learning models, large language models and pioneering conversational search experiences. The team spearheads the platform and innovation for conversational search and the core copilot experiences across Microsoft’s ecosystem including BizChat, Office and Windows.


As a Principal Applied Science Manager in the Turing team, you be pushing & delivering on multiple tight timeline-based hands on data science activity and work, including training models, creating evaluation sets, building infrastructure for training and evaluation, and more. This will involve coordinating & aligning with internal & external data science, product & engineering teams across timezones.

 

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.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

  • Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 15+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
    • OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
    • OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research).
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 6+ year(s) of people management experience.
  • 5+ years of experience delivering team level outcomes.
  • 8+ years of industrial experience coding in C++, C#, C, Java or Python
  • Prior experience with data analysis or understanding, looking at data from a large-scale systems to identify patterns or create evaluation datasets
  • Familiarity with common machine learning, deep learning frameworks and concepts, using use of LLMs, prompting. Experience in pytorch or tensorflow is a bonus.
  • Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical
    • OR Computer Engineering,
    • OR related field AND 9+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
    • OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical
    • OR Computer Engineering,
    • OR related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of people management experience.

 

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Responsibilities

As a Principal Applied Science Manager on our team, you'll be responsible for and will engage in:
  • Driving projects from design through conception, implementation, experimentation and finally shipping to our users. This requires deep diving into data to identify gaps, coming up with heuristics and possible solutions, using LLMs to create the right model or evaluation prompts, and setting up the engineering pipeline or infrastructure to run them.

  • Manage a small team of applied scientists, assigning tasks, closely mentoring or guiding them, taking responsibility for their outcome / growth & overall output. Any of the activities below could be delegated or done by the individual oneself – either way, one is expected to know the activity well enough to drive it efficiently.

  • Documenting progress & processing, assisting & guiding junior team members, aligning & unblocking them with other stakeholders in timezones.

  • Coming up with evaluation techniques, datasets, criteria and metrics for model evaluations. These are often SOTA models or metrics / datasets.

  • Hands on own the fine-tuning, use of language models, including dataset creation, filtering, review, and continuous iteration.

    This requires working in a diverse geographically distributed team environment where collaboration and innovation are valued. You will have an opportunity for direct impact on design, functionality, security, performance, scalability, manageability, and supportability of Microsoft products that use our deep learning technology.

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