Senior Applied Scientist (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Applied Scientist (AI): Building and optimizing agentic AI systems for Office users to enhance productivity with rich content and tool support with an accent on designing and developing highly complex and comprehensive systems combining engineering, AI, and human participation. Focus on designing and implementing advanced LLM-based architectures, translating research breakthroughs into production-ready algorithms, and monitoring and improving model performance post-deployment.

Location: Beijing, China

Company

hirify.global is building AI and engineering systems to benefit Office users with rich content and tool support to raise productivity.

What you will do

• Design and implement advanced LLM-based architectures and agentic systems for real-world product scenarios.
• Translate research breakthroughs into production-ready algorithms, contributing to core capabilities such as reasoning, planning, long-term memory, and code-gen based design.
• Monitor and improve model performance post-deployment through data-driven iteration and error analysis.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver robust, scalable models aligned with product objectives and user value.
• Contribute to the organization’s scientific direction by identifying research opportunities that drive long-term differentiation.

Requirements

• M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in applied machine learning, with a focus on LLMs, agent systems, or reinforcement learning.
• Strong hands-on experience with prompt engineering, context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool use, planning agents, and long-context modeling.
• Familiarity with model training pipelines using PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, or similar frameworks, evaluation strategies, and model deployment best practices.
• Strong coding and debugging skills.
• Comfort working in cross-functional, agile environments.

Nice to have

• Experience on office document generation and related applications.

Culture & Benefits

• Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to various protected characteristics.
• Assistance with religious accommodations and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability is available during the application process.