Microsoft · 18 hours ago
Principal Researcher
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$138K/yr - $267K/yr
5+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Expands collaborative relationships with product or business group leaders inside or outside Microsoft as a world expert and provides expertise or technology to them. Contributes to product or business group decisions at a strategic level by sharing input and expertise. Creates a measurable impact on the business.
Identifies and articulates a clear long-term research agenda that is academically novel and may incorporate current or anticipated business priorities.
Leads a collaborative research effort (possibly spanning multiple teams/Universities inside and outside of Microsoft) to advance a long-term research agenda through multiple projects, yielding new algorithms, prototypes, theories, tools, methods, analyses, insights, or collections of data in one or more subareas or a broad area of research to create societal impact.
Serves as a top industry/academic leader and accomplished expert in a broad area of research (e.g., Machine Learning [ML], Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Statistical Modeling) or gains unique knowledge in a specific area of research; understands the corresponding literature, applicable research techniques, and business and academic context.
Proactively provides mentorship and coaching to less experienced and mid-level team members (e.g., interns, early-in-career researchers, senior researchers, Ph.D. candidates) by sharing expertise to build team capabilities and guiding team members in research projects and their careers. Represents Microsoft externally to grow network and attract/cultivate talent and desired capabilities. Helps to develop a capability strategy that serves long-term research objectives and attracts/cultivates talent and desired capabilities.
Collaborates effectively with multiple research teams and researchers in other organizations to advance a long-term research agenda; acts as a major contributor to influential publications, serves on workshop and conference organizing committees, and delivers talks as an invited speaker, with an impact similar to that of a (United States) tenured associate professor.
Qualification
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Required
Doctorate in relevant field AND 3+ years related-research experience OR equivalent experience.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
Preferred
Experience participating in a top conference in information retrieval, dense retrieval, vector search, embeddings, GraphRAG and related domains.
Experience publishing academic papers as a lead author or essential contributor.
Doctorate in relevant field AND 5+ years related-research experience OR equivalent experience.
Company
Microsoft
Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1MKey Investors
Technology Venture Investors
2022-12-09Post Ipo Equity
1986-03-13IPO
1981-09-01Series Unknown· $1M
Leadership Team
Clare Barclay
Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft UK
Helene Barnekow
CEO Microsoft Sweden
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