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Posted on 4/7/2025

AI Research Leader

Microsoft Corporation

Redmond, WA

Full-time

Qualifications

  • Required Qualifications: Doctorate in a relevant field or equivalent experience
  • Other Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft security screening requirements

Benefits

  • Salary and Benefits
  • The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year, with different ranges applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area

Responsibilities

  • We are seeking an entrepreneurial and creative Senior Applied Researcher to lead groundbreaking research projects, taking them from research into product
  • You will collaborate with scientists, engineers, and designers across Microsoft Research, Microsoft product teams, and GitHub
  • This is a unique opportunity to build and train state-of-the-art models and apply and advance existing approaches of using LLMs for software engineering
  • Lead research projects on the future of AI for developers
  • Collaborate across disciplines with product teams across Microsoft and GitHub
  • 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

Full Description

Company Overview

Mission-driven to empower every person and organization on the planet, Microsoft is a diverse and entrepreneurial group of scientists, researchers, and engineers passionate about using AI to improve developer productivity. We have released AI advancements in Github Copilot, VS Code, Visual Studio, and other Microsoft tools.

Salary and Benefits

The typical base pay range for thisrole across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year, with different ranges applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area.

About the Role

We are seeking an entrepreneurial and creative Senior Applied Researcher to lead groundbreaking research projects, taking them from research into product. You will collaborate with scientists, engineers, and designers across Microsoft Research, Microsoft product teams, and GitHub. This is a unique opportunity to build and train state-of-the-art models and apply and advance existing approaches of using LLMs for software engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Lead research projects on the future of AI for developers

  • Collaborate across disciplines with product teams across Microsoft and GitHub

  • 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

Qualifications

  • Required Qualifications: Doctorate in a relevant field or equivalent experience

  • Other Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft security screening requirements

About Microsoft

We come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

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