Applied Scientist II

**Overview**

AI has created an unprecedented opportunity to make work better for hundreds of millions of people. Microsoft’s productivity division is hiring **Applied Scientists II** to help ensure we maximize this amazing opportunity. Our scientists collaborate closely with people across Microsoft’s product teams and Microsoft Research to see their ideas realized in products and services like M365, M365 Copilot, Office AI, and Office Products (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.). They also contribute back to the scientific community through peer-reviewed publications at top venues, scientific presentations, and beyond.

We are looking for **Applied Scientists II** who are creative, self-driven, curious, people-oriented and comfortable defining a path through ambiguity towards high-level goals. Research areas of interest include but are certainly not limited to reinforcement learning, agentic systems multimodal modeling, post-training techniques and their application, h...