Microsoft is looking to hire a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to contribute to the development and integration of cutting-edge AI technologies into Microsoft Copilot Studio, ensuring they are inclusive, ethical, and impactful.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience with Machine learning or AI-embedded processes.
- Experience with MLOps Workflows, including CI/CD, monitoring, and retraining pipelines.
- Familiarity with modern LLMOps frameworks (e.g., LangChain, PromptFlow)
- Familiar with AI coding assistant, AI IDE, Agentic coding assistant such as GitHub Copilot, and Cursor
- 2+ years of experience conducting applied AI research in academic or industry settings
- 2+ year of experience developing and deploying live production systems or AI services
- Experience across the product lifecycle from ideation to shipping
Responsibilities
- Prepare and analyze data for machine learning, identifying optimal features and addressing data gaps.
- Implement machine learning algorithms, large-scale model fine-tuning, especially with closed and open source LLMs, SLMs, multimodal or task-specific models to solve real-world customer problems and deliver measurable product and customer impact.
- Contribute to or enhance existing innovations by continuously refining well-established models and training techniques through iterative improvements.
- Develop evaluation frameworks to assess model performance, monitor model behavior, conduct systematic benchmarking, and address identified weaknesses while ensuring compliance with customer standards.
- Write efficient production code and debug complex distributed systems.
- Provide subject matter expertise in AI subfields (e.g., deep learning, Generative AI, NLP, muti-modal models, reinforcement learning) to help translate cutting-edge research into practical, real-world solutions that drive product innovation and business impact.
- Demonstrate deep understanding of small and large language models (SLMs and LLMs) architecture and optimization techniques to adapt out-of-the-box solutions to particular business problems.
Other
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements is 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.
