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Microsoft Corporation Senior Research Engineer – Generative AI – Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington
Microsoft Research (MSR) AI Frontiers lab is seeking applications for the position of Senior Research Engineer – Generative AI to join their team in Redmond, WA and New York City, NY.
The mission of the AI Frontiers (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/lab/ai-frontiers/overview/) lab is to expand the pareto frontier of AI capabilities, efficiency, and safety through innovations in foundation models and learning agent platforms. Some of our projects include work on Small Language Models (e.g. Phi, Orca), foundation models for actions (e.g., in gaming, robotics, and Office productivity tools) and Multi-Agent AI (e.g. AutoGen).
We are seeking Senior Research Engineers to join our team and contribute to the advancement of Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) technologies. As a Research Engineer, you will play a crucial role in developing, improving, and exploring the capabilities of Generative AI models. Your work will have a significant impact on the development of cutting-edge technologies, advancing state-of-the-art and providing practical solutions to real-world problems.
Our ongoing research areas encompass but are not limited to:
Pre-training: especially of language models, action models and multimodal models
Alignment and Post-training: e.g., Instruction tuning and reinforcement learning from feedback
Continual Learning: Enabling LLMs to evolve and adapt over time and learn from previous experiences human interactions
Specialization: Tailoring modelsto meet application-specific requirements
Orchestration and multi-agent systems: automated orchestration between multiple agents incorporating human feedback and oversight
Microsoft Research (MSR) offers a vibrant environment for cutting-edge, multidisciplinary, research, including access to diverse, real-world problems and data, opportunities for experimentation and real-world impact, an open publication policy, and close links to top academic institutions around the world.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
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Responsibilities
As a Senior Research Engineer in AI Frontiers, you will design, develop, execute, and implement technology research projects in collaboration with other researchers, engineers, and product groups.
As a member of a word-class research organization, you will be a part of research breakthroughs in the field and will be given an opportunity to realize your ideas in products and services used worldwide.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
Bachelors in Computer Science or relevant fieldAND 4+ years related research experience
OR equivalent experience.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
Bachelorsin Computer Science or relevant fieldAND 8+ years related research experience
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 6+ years of related research experience
OR equivalent experience.
Experience in creating, optimizing and running large scale machine learning pipelines
Experience in running large scale experiments with LLMs pre-training and/or finetuning
Experience in building data collection and curation pipelines.
Ability to collaborate, communicate effectively, and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Keen interest in real-world applications and impact.
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $145,800 - $238,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft accepts applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.
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