Microsoft Turing Team is looking to advance the frontier of large language models (LLMs) to improve the productivity of hundreds of millions of users by enhancing the core systems that power Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, delivering intelligence, quality, and transformative new features.
Requirements
- 1+ years' experience in deep learning model training.
- 1+ year(s) experience creating publications (e.g., patents, peer-reviewed academic papers).
- 1+ year(s) experience creating publications at top conferences like ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics), EMNLP (Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing), SIGKDD (Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence), WSDM (Web Search and Data Mining), COLING (International Conference on Computational Linguistics), WWW (World Wide Web Conference), NIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems), ICASSP (International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing), etc.
Responsibilities
- Evolve our orchestrator to reason more effectively, respond faster, and support new capabilities in multi-modality, agent-based systems, and beyond
- Advance the state of the art in model training—including post-training methods such as fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, high-quality data curation, and experimentation with frontier model training
- Build and deliver model-driven features from concept to production—spanning model development, evaluation, metrics, and A/B testing
- You will be reponsible for a broad area or research and understand any applicable research techniques.
- You will review business and product requirement, incorporate research, and provide strategic direction for problem solving.
- You will also ensure scientific rigor, support the development of methods, and apply your expertise to support business impact.
- You will document work and experimentation results and share findings to promote innovation.
Other
- You’ll also serve as a team expert on changes in industry trends, products, and other advances, and apply this knowledge to influence product needs.
- You will identify and inspire peers and new research talent to join Microsoft, build relationships, and advocate for research initiatives.
- You’ll share research findings through industry outreach, collaborate with the academic community, and help develop the recruiting pipeline.
- You’ll provide guidance when capturing processes and contribute to ethics and privacy policies related to research processes and data collection.
- Embody our Culture and Values
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
