# Senior Machine Learning Engineer / Applied Scientist

OverviewWe are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer / Applied Scientist to help design, evaluate, and ship the next generation of AI-powered product experiences. The role combines strong machine learning and applied science depth with hands-on engineering, product judgment, and end-to-end ownership from prototyping through launch and continuous improvement. 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 Build, evaluate, and improve AI/ML experiences (LLMs, RAG, agentic, multimodal systems). Design evaluation frameworks for quality, grounding, reliability, safety, and UX. Build offline experimentation pipelines for models/prompts/retrieval/system designs. Partner across product/engineering/science to define measurable objectives and success metrics. Analyze failures and drive clear product/technical improvements. Build produ

- **Id**: 3848777
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-senior-machine-learning-engineer-applied-scientist-3>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Vancouver, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T12:59:09Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T05:38:34Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7035
- **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**: 114400
- **Max**: 203900
- **Currency**: CAD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 145703

## Technologies

- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: yes
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes
- **Function Calling** — Optional: yes
- **LLM** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T01:44:38Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 145703
- **Is top pay**: no

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