Microsoft's Business & Industry Copilots (BIC) group is seeking a Principal Software Engineering Manager to drive the design and deployment of next-generation AI systems at scale, enabling organizations to revolutionize the creation of Copilots through state-of-the-art AI solutions and product offerings for the Dynamics 365 and Power Platform suites.
Requirements
- 2+ years’ experience with transformer-based models (e.g., GPT, Llama).
- 2+ years’ experience in coding and design, specifically in the development of AI models for scaled production services.
- 2+ years’ experience in shipping applied research to production, highlighting a track record of combining coding skills with advanced expertise in AI model development.
- 6+ years’ experience in coding and design, specifically in the development of AI models for scaled production services.
- 6+ years’ experience in shipping applied research to production, highlighting a track record of combining coding skills with advanced expertise in AI model development.
- Expertise in one or more of the following: supervised learning, deep learning, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, computer vision, time series forecasting, or causal inference.
- Relevant experience in Applications of Foundation Models, Domain Adaptation of Foundation Models (e.g. fine-tuning LLMs/SLMs) or Vision, Audio, and Multimodal Foundation Models or agentic Systems or Prompt Tuning or Natural Language Processing or Human-AI Interaction
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of advanced AI models and agentic systems for real-world applications.
- Own and drive end-to-end model training, including data pipeline design, distributed training optimization, and performance evaluation.
- Stay up to date with the latest advancements in LLM, NLP, deep learning, search and AI research.
- Research and develop an understanding of the state-of-the-art tools, technologies, and methods being used in the research community and product groups.
- Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and research teams to productionize models, build scalable, robust pipelines and provide support for in production AI Models/Agents
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define project goals, success criteria, and deliverables.
- Conduct applied science experiments, create and validate metrics, develop ML pipeline and modeling algorithm in the area of Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Machine Learning.
Other
- Role type: People Manager
- 3 days / week in-office
- Travel: 25-50%
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
