Microsoft’s Developer Division is working on the future of AI for Developers and seeking a Senior Applied Researcher to lead groundbreaking research projects, taking these from research into product to improve the productivity of millions of developers around the world.
Requirements
- Doctorate in relevant field
- Experience publishing academic papers as a lead author or essential contributor.
- Experience participating in a top conference in relevant research domain.
- Ability to build and train state-of-the-art models
- Opportunities to both apply and advance existing approaches of using LLMs for software engineering, from using RAG to evaluation
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.
Other
- Doctorate in relevant field OR equivalent experience
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- 2+ years related research experience
- Embody our Culture and Values
