Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft 365 Copilot are groundbreaking tools that leverage the power of large language models, combined with (real-time) enterprise business data to drive unparalleled innovations in productivity, including autonomous actions in business processes in the enterprise. As these agents proliferate, businesses face unprecedented challenges. These agents must collaborate seamlessly with humans, frequently using the same applications for collaboration and lines of business systems without introducing friction or security risk. Agents also require contextual, real-time data access to make decisions, yet must do so with the guardrails necessary to align with an organization’s risk tolerance.

We are looking for Principal Applied Scientist to join our team. The role reports directly to the CTO and VP of the organization.

In this role, you will experiment with and fine-tuning models, to build end-to-end SaaS product scenarios enabling enterprise productivity and agents taking actions while ensuring enterprise security and governance capabilities for AI.

We are looking for an individual who has experience in collaborating with research and product engineering teams to deliver best of class innovative product solutions. This can range from alignments with stakeholders, working together to build and fine-tune models, developing advanced RAG techniques, to coming up with ways to build custom generative AI architectures for specific product needs.

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