CareerPlanSign in

Senior Applied Scientist

United Kingdom, Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-03 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and develop methods to adapt foundation models (language, diffusion, multimodal) for enterprise-specific tasks like document understanding, workflow automation, and content generation.

Role type

Senior Applied Scientist (Foundation Model Adaptation)

Builds

Production AI systems for enterprise deployment

Domain

Enterprise AI, Foundation Models, Research

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Foundation model adaptation, Transformer architectures, Reinforcement learning, Distributed ML training, Privacy-preserving ML, Model evaluation/benchmarking, Agentic model behaviors, Python, PyTorch

Preferred skills

Academic publishing, Conference speaking, Live production system deployment, End-to-end product cycle experience

Technologies

PyTorch, Transformer models, Diffusion models, Multimodal models

Responsibilities

Architect parameter-efficient adaptation techniques, Evaluate approaches under latency/safety/privacy constraints, Mentor interns and early-career members

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with research leadership

Sourced via microsoft · Listed on CareerPlan, which tracks 70,000+ jobs from 20+ sources.