Senior Applied Scientist

Microsoft Ads is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist with expertise in Large Language Model training and inference. In this role, you will be part of initiatives spanning pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, alignment using reinforcement learning and high-performance inference optimization. You will address challenges in multi-billion parameter model training, ensuring LLMs are robust, scalable, and optimized for production use. This is a unique opportunity to advance Microsoft Ads AI capabilities and solve real-world optimization problems for large-scale systems.

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