# Principal Research Scientist

OverviewThe AI Transformation team within Microsoft Frontier Company is reimagining how the company operates in the age of AI. We work across the business to transform critical end-to-end workflows, bringing people, AI agents, and systems together to create fundamentally new ways of working. Our team is multidisciplinary, including design, applied AI, engineering, program leadership, and business transformation to move rapidly from opportunity to working solution. We operate with a builder mindset: hands-on, highly collaborative, comfortable with ambiguity, and biased toward action. Our goal is not simply to add AI to existing processes, but to build AI-native operating models and reusable solutions that improve how Microsoft Frontier Company works and accelerate transformation at scale. We are hiring research scientists to set the questions, build the evidence and share what we learn about the business and human experience of agentic transformation. Working within our multidisciplinary team, alongside design, applied AI, engineering, program leadership and business transformation, and with partners across the business, to study how agents are changing work, roles, judgement and de

- **Id**: 3836319
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-principal-research-scientist>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Washington, United States, Boston, United States, New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-15T08:05:08Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T02:22:48Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 24
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6510
- **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**: 445
- **Ghost share**: 0.007
- **Stale share**: 0.602
- **Repost share**: 0.038
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 142800
- **Max**: 274800
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 274800

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 24

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T21:04:19Z

## 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**: 45
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.605
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 23
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:late, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 274800
- **Is top pay**: yes

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