Microsoft · 2 weeks ago
Principal Product Manager, Foundational AI Research
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
8+ years expMicrosoft AI is on a mission to train the world’s most capable AI frontier models. As a Principal Product Manager, you will be responsible for advancing the next generation of LLM models, working closely with AI researchers to prioritize new research and build evaluation datasets.
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Responsibilities
Identify and prioritize language / coding / multimodal issues and work with researchers to find a path to resolution
Create novel data collection tasks for taskers to evaluate models and to collect training data for fine-tuning
Create model prototypes to prove out new feature directions and scope projects
Collaborate closely with teams on infrastructure, data engineering, pre-training, post-training, and product feedback
Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and growth
Advance the AI frontier responsibly
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience
2+ years direct, hands-on collaboration with model researchers and ML engineers in areas such as training runs, data evaluation, infrastructure, coding, or safety
Experience building and shipping data pipelines or evaluation systems personally
Preferred
A technical postgraduate degree is strongly preferred; a PhD is ideal but not mandatory
Demonstrated ability to bring enterprise or developer products to market by deeply engaging with end customers
Company
Microsoft
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