Microsoft · 1 month ago
Research Sciences IC4 - CoreAI
United States, Washington, Redmond
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
3+ years expMicrosoft is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to join their Data and AI team within the Developer Division. The role involves leading innovative research projects aimed at enhancing AI tools for developers, collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams, and building state-of-the-art models for software engineering applications.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Lead projects on the future of AI for developers
Collaborate across disciplines with product teams across Microsoft and Github
Design efficient inference algorithms for CodeLLM, CodeAgent
Stay up to date with the research literature and product advances in AI for software engineering
Create new datasets from both the world's public code and Microsoft's internal data
Build and manage large-scale ML experiments and models
Qualification
Required
Doctorate in relevant field OR Master's Degree in relevant field AND 3+ years related research experience OR Bachelor's Degree in relevant field AND 4+ years related research experience OR equivalent experience
Background Check: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Preferred
Doctorate in relevant field AND 3+ years related research experience OR Master's Degree in relevant field AND 6+ years related research experience OR Bachelor's Degree in relevant field AND 8+ years related research experience OR equivalent experience
Experience publishing academic papers as a lead author or essential contributor
Experience participating in a top conference in relevant research domain
2+ years of research/industrial experience with LLM
Strong engineering skills
Research experience CodeLLM is a plus
Experience publishing academic papers as a lead author or essential contributor is a plus
Experience participating in a top conference in relevant research domain is a plus
Company
Microsoft
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