Microsoft's AI Platform organization builds the end-to-end Azure AI stack/PaaS, which is core to Azure's innovation and differentiation, as well as all of Microsoft's flagship products. The AI Foundry team enables data scientists and developers to quickly and easily build, train, deploy, manage, and consume machine learning models. The AI Foundry OSS Model Customization Team is working on groundbreaking projects for customizing OSS models.
Requirements
- coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- 5+ years of experience writing production code in building internet scale services and distributed systems.
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS) and distributed computing (Kubernetes)
- Proficiency in Python and relevant ML libraries (e.g. PyTorch).
- Experience with transformer-based and diffuser-based models preferred(e.g. GPT, Llama, Stable diffusion).
Responsibilities
- Write clean and concise code with unit tests
- Collaborate with researchers and data scientists to implement model customization techniques, including Finetuning, Reinforcement Finetuning, Distillation.
- Optimize model performance, scalability, and efficiency.
- Conduct experiments to evaluate model performance, robustness, and generalization.
- Explore novel techniques and approaches to enhance model capabilities.
Other
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience
- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.
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