Principal Applied Scientist

As Microsoft continues to lead the way in AI innovation, Clipchamp is at the forefront of transforming how people create and share video content. We are the go-to video platform with a simple mission: to empower anyone to tell stories worth sharing. With nearly one hundred million registered users worldwide, we’re just getting started.

We are looking for a Principal Applied Scientist to join our team and help shape the future of AI-powered video creation. As an applied scientist at Microsoft, you’ll have access to cutting-edge generative AI models, LLMs, AI tooling and research. You will collaborate with research teams, build and fine-tune models, and design world-class solutions that simplify and elevate video creation. From automating editing tasks to enabling entirely new forms of storytelling, you’ll help build the next generation of intelligent, user-friendly, video tools.

You’ll join a nimble, cross-disciplinary team embedded within Microsoft, working alongside engineers, product managers, designers, and researchers to deliver innovative solutions. If you’re passionate about applying AI in creative, real-world scenarios and want to work at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and storytelling, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Serve as an expert within a team on changes in industry/market trends, products, industry advances, and opportunities in applied technologies across relevant applied research areas.
• Review business and product requirements and incorporate state-of-the-art research occurring at Microsoft and the academic field to formulate plans that will meet business goals.
• Bring new technology and approaches into production by applying long-term research efforts to solve product needs across quality, performance, and efficiency.
• Proactively provide mentorship and coaching to team members by sharing expertise, guiding team members in projects and their careers, and to establish best practices and standards.
• Nurture and grow collaborative relationships with product or business group leaders inside or outside Microsoft and provide expertise or technology to create business impact.
• Create and sustain an effective team culture. We value and promote a high trust environment where we work closely and effectively with others.  
  
  

We emphasize a culture of continuous learning and so having a growth mindset and passion for learning is important. You should expect that your teammates will be invested in helping make you successful and expect the same in return from you. We recognize and celebrate the uniqueness of each person on the team and leverage our diversity to create more inclusive products for our customers. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Proficiency in Large Language Models (LLMs), including experience with training, fine-tuning, and deploying LLMs for various applications.
• Expertise in one or more subareas (e.g., Object Recognition, Text Classification) and a broad understanding of research areas.
• Hands on experience with server-side or on-device models, with fluency in Python, C# and Typescript.  
• Experience shipping high-quality products at scale.  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience in ML including designing, developing, testing, and shipping software in a full software development lifecycle. 
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Applied Science, Data Science, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related disciplines.  
• Passion for customers, innovation, and product quality. 
• Experience monitoring of production or AI training tasks
  
  

Other Requirements

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

If you're excited about the Clipchamp video journey, creating something new, working on cutting-edge technology, working closely with AI scientists on the frontier of deep learning, on planet-scale services to bring this functionality to the hundreds of millions of M365 users across the globe, we are looking for you! 

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