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Principal Applied Scientist

United States, Washington, RedmondFull-time2026-10-27 → 2026-11-10

Core

Build AI-driven automation and agentic systems to manage infrastructure capacity, health, and automated root-cause analysis for large-scale operational data affecting billions of users.

Role type

Principal Applied Scientist (AIOps & Infrastructure)

Builds

Production ML models for anomaly detection, automated mitigation, and mathematical optimization of service efficiency and reliability.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure / AIOps / Large-scale Data Platforms

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning model development, anomaly detection, root-cause analysis, time-series forecasting, mathematical optimization, Python, PyTorch, scikit-learn, LLM-based tools, SQL, large-scale data platforms (Spark, Kusto, Hive, Azure Data Lake), cloud service operations.

Preferred skills

Experience with agentic systems, automated incident mitigation pipelines, explaining technical work to non-specialists.

Technologies

Python, PyTorch, scikit-learn, LLM APIs, SQL, Spark, Kusto, Hive, Azure Data Lake

Responsibilities

Build AI-driven automation and agentic systems for infrastructure management; develop models to detect anomalies and emerging issues; design automated root-cause analysis systems; design automated mitigation strategies; take ML prototypes to production; collaborate with engineering and product teams.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship