Microsoft Research AI Frontiers lab is seeking applications for the position of 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 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.

Responsibilities

As a 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 2+ years related research experience

• OR equivalent experience.

    Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors in Computer Science or relevant fieldAND 4+ years related research experience

• OR equivalent experience.

• 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 IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,300 - $182,600 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 $120,900 - $198,600 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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