# Applied Scientist II

OverviewJoin the Copilot Agents & Search Quality team to improve how people find and use information through M365 Copilot Chat, Copilot Search, Work IQ, and agent experiences. As an Applied Scientist II, you will apply machine learning and information retrieval methods to enterprise search problems. You will work with scientists, engineers, and product partners to develop and evaluate improvements to search quality, and help bring effective approaches into products. 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. Responsibilities Investigate search and retrieval quality problems using data, offline evaluation, and statistical analysis. Develop and test methods for query understanding and sparse, dense, or multimodal retrieval, including large language model techniques where appropriate. Build and analyze evaluations and experiments; explain results, limita

- **Id**: 4197135
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-applied-scientist-ii-3>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Washington, United States, Mountain View, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T20:03:36Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T20:44:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Office & Productivity Software, Gaming Consoles, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 18
- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
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- **Size band**: 5000+
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- **Employer type**: direct
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- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

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- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
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## Salary

- **Min**: 102100
- **Max**: 202200
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
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## Technologies

- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **PyTorch** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T20:44:24Z

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- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T21:56:24Z

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