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Original Job Post

Microsoft · 1 week ago

Principal Researcher

Redmond, WA

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$158K/yr - $304K/yr

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Research Vision and Strategy: Provide vision, technical guidance, deep industry expertise, and thought leadership to impact direction of our focus areas across the company.

Guide research to advance the state of the art in AI, Systems, and Privacy research.

Cross-Organization Leadership: Enable effective collaboration among multiple research, engineering, and business teams, and provides leadership to the internal and external research community.

Work with a small group of fellow researchers and product engineering teams to execute practical solutions for step-function real-world impact.

Publish and contribute to top scientific conferences and journals.

Qualification

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Machine LearningSoftware EngineeringStatisticsOptimizationResearch ExperienceLeadershipMentoringScientific TranslationEngineering Impact

Required

Doctorate in relevant field AND 5+ years related research experience OR equivalent experience

5+ years leadership experience (e.g., leading research projects, leading program committees, mentoring interns/post-docs)

At least five publications in top conferences/journals in one of the following areas: machine learning, systems, privacy, software engineering, statistics, optimization

Preferred

Doctorate in relevant field AND 8+ years related research experience OR equivalent experience

5+ years experience in translating scientific research to engineering or product impact

Benefits

Benefits and other compensation as per Microsoft's policy

Company

Microsoft

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Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.

Founded in 1975

Redmond, Washington, USA

10,001+ employees

https://www.microsoft.com

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