The Data and AI team in Microsoft's Developer Division is working on the future of AI for Developers, aiming to improve the productivity of millions of developers worldwide through AI advancements in tools like Github Copilot, VS Code, and Visual Studio.
Requirements
- 1+ years of research/industrial experience with LLM.
- Experience in LLM training/agent development.
Responsibilities
- Lead groundbreaking research projects, taking these from research into product.
- Collaborate with scientists, engineers and designers across Microsoft Research, Microsoft product teams and Github.
- Build and train state-of-the-art models.
- Apply and advance existing approaches of using LLMs for software engineering, from using RAG to evaluation.
- Work closely with several developer product teams to run experiments, evaluate, iterate and improve your AI projects on a large scale.
- Contribute projects on the future of AI for developers.
- Create new datasets from both the world's public code and Microsoft's internal data.
Other
- Master's Degree in relevant field AND 1+ year(s) related research experience OR equivalent experience.
- 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.
- Doctorate in relevant field OR equivalent experience.
- Experience publishing academic papers as a lead author or essential contributor.
- Experience participating in a top conference in relevant research domain.
