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Senior Applied Scientist - Outlook Science Team

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-18 → 2026-09-25

Core

Develop and execute comprehensive strategy for LLM evaluation, encompassing quality, costs, performance, utility, and responsible AI considerations.

Role type

Senior Applied Scientist (LLM Evaluation & Strategy)

Builds

Automated evaluation pipelines integrated into product workflow; cost-effective solutions like SLMs, finetuned models, and ensemble models.

Domain

Large Language Models (LLM), Artificial Intelligence, Responsible AI

Deliverable

production ML models | dashboards & analysis | research

Required skills

LLM evaluation, program management, data science, experimentation design, metrics creation, synthetic data creation, RAG implementation, agentic workflows, Python development, responsible AI principles

Preferred skills

Small language models (SLMs), reinforcement learning, user experience optimization, deep research initiatives

Technologies

Python, LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows

Responsibilities

Develop and execute LLM evaluation strategy; oversee large-scale cross-functional evaluation programs; drive engineering product roadmap for automated pipelines; lead model and agent performance assessment; collaborate with UX teams to optimize AI interactions; implement Responsible AI guidelines; lead deep research initiatives; communicate findings to executive leadership.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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