Microsoft Copilot is revolutionizing how people work and has created an unprecedented opportunity to advance the state-of-the-art in a way that benefits millions of people.
Requirements
- Experience coding and hands-on experience working with foundation models.
- Ability to apply research, preferring the large-scale application of new ideas over theory and prototypes.
- Applications of Foundation Models
- Domain Adaptation of Foundation Models (e.g. fine-tuning LLMs/SLMs)
- Vision, Audio, and Multimodal Foundation Models
- On-device Foundation Models
- Trust, Privacy, and Foundation Models
Responsibilities
- Defining, leading, and helping to conduct research projects that simultaneously advance the state-of-the-art and directly benefit Microsoft’s core productivity products.
- Collaborating and coordinating with people in a range of roles, including researchers, engineers, product managers, designers, and other key product stakeholders. Serving as a bridge between research and product.
- Teaching, guiding, and tutoring colleagues without research backgrounds in state-of-the-art techniques and research best practices.
- Many of the things you will try should lead to unexpected outcomes. You must be comfortable learning from experience, developing new hypotheses, and iterating.
- Sharing your research with others via a range of means, including publication, to enable others to build on your work and to contribute to the understanding of our products as cutting-edge and science driven.
- Effectively communicating with product leaders (and often MSR researchers) throughout the planning and execution of applied research projects, which often involves learning and teaching complex concepts.
Other
- Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements that 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.
- As a part of your application please attach your CV and the names and contact information of at least three established researchers familiar with your research who will be willing to write a letter of reference. One of these people should be your Ph.D. advisor.
- A cover letter discussing your interest in the role and how your experience connects with the topics in this call.
- A brief academic statement that outlines both your research achievements and agenda and up to two papers that highlight your research interests.
