Join an innovative team that delivers core Copilot Shared Services for our flagship Office Apps such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Our mission is to deliver the next generation of personalized Copilot experiences leveraging best of breed Microsoft technologies across Copilot Platform, Microsoft Substrate, and beyond. Consider this opportunity to advance our approach in ways that benefits millions of people. We will achieve this through innovation and vision for our next-gen solutions, connecting key partnerships across Microsoft, and influencing best-of-breed advancements leveraging AI technology.

Within Copilot Shared Services, we apply a data-driven approach to innovation, led by experimentation, and leveraging new foundational LLMs, advanced ML techniques, rich algorithms, and AI technologies. The skills of Data Science will help us to accelerate developmental advancements and improve quality of our customer experiences. We invest in agentic solutions and are working to advance methods of evaluation and automated customer solutions. We are looking for a Data Scientist 2 to join our team to help shape the future of how Office users interact with Copilot and AI. You will leverage your understanding of data science and business to examine projects and consider factors that can influence final outcomes within technical areas.

In this role as a Data Scientist II, you’ll work closely with engineers, program managers, data scientists and applied scientists to improve our approach to experimentation, and advance personalized experiences, the use of foundational models, advancement of evaluation techniques, and improve overall efficiency.

Responsibilities will include leading with a data first mindset, advancing experimentation, evaluations and datasets, evolution of advanced prompt engineering, selection and fine-tuning of models, develop concepts for more efficient and accurate solutions, and research and assess different architectures and approaches from across the M365 ecosystem. You will connect with leaders and subject matter experts across the company and play a key role in building reliable, measurable systems that bridge cutting-edge AI with their expression across M365 Copilot user experiences.

If you're excited about advancing applied AI and making a difference in the future of Copilot, we’d love to hear from you.

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.

• Define, lead, and implement advanced, repeatable data-driven pipelines and techniques with an emphasis on evaluation for the next generation of model generated suggested user actions.
• Conduct research projects and workstreams that directly benefit our customers, drive positive usage, and improve Microsoft’s core productivity products.
• Evolve our approach of our prompt engineering, model selection, design and manage evaluation datasets, develop concepts for more efficient and accurate solutions, and researching and assessing different architectures and approaches from across the M365 ecosystem.
• Collaborate and coordinate with people in a range of roles, including researchers, engineers, product managers, designers, and product leaders and other key product stakeholders.
• Generate AI solutions that can be shipped to customers to improve their experience and used internally to generate data insights to shape the features and products we ship to customers.
• Teach, guide, and tutor colleagues without research backgrounds in state-of-the-art techniques and research best practices.
• Many of the things you will try should lead to unexpected outcomes. You must be comfortable learning from experience, developing new hypotheses, and iterating.
• Sharing project outcomes and insights with others via a range of means, including publication, to enable others to build on your work and to contribute to the understanding of our products as cutting-edge and science driven.

• Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
  • OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
  • OR equivalent experience.