People Skills, a new data layer in Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft 365 and the Viva portfolio of apps and services, aims to enable Copilot and the Skills agent to understand the backbone of a company's people. This role is to join the think tank behind the inferencing engine, knowledge graphs, and production of people intelligence grounding data to help customers thrive in the age of AI.
Requirements
- 2+ years experience demonstrating proficiency in real world applications of Foundation Models, domain adaptation of Foundation Models (e.g. fine-tuning LLMs/SLMs), Agentic Systems, Natural language processing, Prompt tuning.
- 2+ years experience programming in Python and experience with machine learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch).
- 3+ years demonstrating proficiency in real world applications of Foundation Models, domain adaptation of Foundation Models (e.g. fine-tuning LLMs/SLMs), Agentic Systems, Natural language processing, Prompt tuning.
- 3+ years experience programming in Python and experience with machine learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch).
- Demonstrated ability to think unconventionally to derive creative and innovative solutions especially for ambiguous projects with incomplete data.
- Expertise in incubation and experimentation, with a focus on leveraging behavioral collaboration data to solve strategic business problems.
- Problem-solving skills and ability to join qualitative and quantitative thinking with an obsession for improving our customer experience.
Responsibilities
- Develop business and product requirements: Work closely with Product Managers and Engineering teams to incorporate state-of-the-art AI research to formulate plans that will meet business goals and customer needs.
- Deeply engage with ongoing product development to ensure and facilitate integration of AI research into the product lifecycle.
- Conduct cutting-edge applied AI research: Understand tools, technologies, and methods being used in the AI community that can be utilized to improve product quality, performance, or efficiency.
- Analyze latest innovations in the academic AI research community and join with market trends to influence future product vision in People Skills and accelerate new investments.
- Explore opportunities for innovation leading to high product impact and publish your work in top-tier conferences and journals.
- Collaborate with applied scientists, researchers, engineers, designers, and product managers to drive People Skills projects through their entire life cycle from idea creation through user need establishment, scientific literature review, rigorous science experiments, evaluation and customer validation of concepts, integration into product workstreams, general availability and iterative improvement to reach desired outcomes for our customers.
- Work with researchers throughout the company to explore open questions pertinent to the product at various stages of impact; identify paths to transfer AI research results into product features and create cross-org workstreams to influence product directions for greater impact.
Other
- Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
- Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
- Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field
- Demonstrated experience communicating complex analysis & insights to senior leaders, business decision makers, practitioners or academic researchers.
- Published research in top-tier AI/ML or HCI/HAI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ACL, CHI etc).
