Senior Data Scientist

Microsoft's M365 Core organization in Bangalore is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join their team focused on strategic workloads like M365 Copilot App, Outlook, Teams, and Copilot Extensibility. The role involves building next-generation engineering infrastructure using AI for improving developer productivity.

The Applied Scientists team tackles various challenges, from data ingestion to fine-tuning, generating insights, and creating purpose-built SLMs for productivity scenarios. Team members collaborate across Microsoft's AI platforms, models, and products teams, leading feature crews with a growth mindset.

The position offers unique opportunities to impact billions of users, working with code running across global datacenters. The role requires expertise in AI research, strong customer focus, and excellent communication skills. Microsoft emphasizes Responsible AI and digital safety, expecting team members to work within these frameworks while innovating rapidly.

The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in data science, with a strong educational background in relevant fields. They should be self-driven, proactive, and comfortable working with minimal direction in a rapidly changing environment. Experience with scalable classifiers, ranking algorithms, SLMs, LLMs, and fine-tuning with RLHF is advantageous.

Microsoft offers comprehensive benefits including industry-leading healthcare, educational resources, savings and investments, parental leave, and generous time off. The company maintains a strong commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion, providing equal opportunities to all qualified applicants.