# Applied Scientist

OverviewFrontier Tuning is Microsoft’s AI customization platform that enables enterprises to adapt foundation models to their unique workflows, domains, and data-while preserving security, privacy, and reliability at scale. As we grow, Frontier Tuning is becoming a critical pillar for ensuring enterprise-specific capabilities are systematically learned and reflected across Microsoft 365 and beyond. We are seeking Applied Scientists with strong systems-building skills who are excited to push the frontier of large-scale model post-training and adaptation. This role spans algorithmic innovation as well as the design and development of scalable infrastructure and tooling for training, steering, evaluating, and securely deploying enterprise-ready AI systems. We welcome candidates with experience in one or more of the following areas: Scalable training systems for RLHF/RLAIF or other post-training pipelines. Transformer architecture design or efficient adaptation techniques (e.g., LoRA-style methods). Inference-time steering, controllability, or alignment approaches. Debugging, evaluation, or development tooling for foundation models. Operating and maintaining AI production systems.

- **Id**: 4217830
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-applied-scientist>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Washington, United States, New York, United States, Mountain View, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T12:56:13Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T03:22:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6229
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Office & Productivity Software, Gaming Consoles, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 18
- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/microsoft>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 521
- **Ghost share**: 0.01
- **Stale share**: 0.568
- **Repost share**: 0.05
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 102100
- **Max**: 202200
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 202200

## Technologies

- **LoRA** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **RLAIF** — Optional: no
- **RLHF** — Optional: no
- **Transformers** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes
- **Function Calling** — Optional: yes
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes
- **PEFT** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **PyTorch** — Optional: yes
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T03:22:27Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,957 · green card filings: 2,767; Filings 12m: 6957

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T04:29:51Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 202200
- **Is top pay**: no

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