# Senior/Principal Applied Scientist - CoreAI

OverviewMicrosoft’s Enterprise customers have a challenge - they need the tools to build agentic experiences over public and private knowledge. The Azure AI Knowledge team is leading the way to deliver the next chapter of agentic retrieval through Foundry IQ Knowledge bases to bring together many sources of structured and unstructured enterprise data and transform it into knowledge. We are continuously developing and deploying new capabilities to meet the demands of complex queries that require reasoning and reflection to deliver high-quality results. Our customers span many different industries, corpus sizes and scenarios, and our work includes multiple aspects, such as: Developing LLM prompts, agents and query execution workflows, often with tight latency constraints Collection, generation and filtering of training and evaluation data Building off state of the art techniques from across Microsoft and the industry Use of AI coding patterns to parallelize and accelerate experimentation You can follow our progression from better search, to RAG, to agentic retrieval: Azure AI Search: Outperforming vector search with hybrid retrieval and ranking capabilities - Microsoft Community

- **Id**: 4288797
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-seniorprincipal-applied-scientist-coreai>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Washington, United States, Mountain View, United States, New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 9
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T17:41:11Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T22:32:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7186
- **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**: 119800
- **Max**: 234700
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 234700

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 9
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T22:32:24Z

## 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**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T00:58:50Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 234700
- **Is top pay**: yes

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