The AI Platform organization at Microsoft builds the end-to-end Azure AI stack/PaaS and is core to Azure’s innovation and differentiation, as well as all of Microsoft’s flagship products. The AI Foundry OSS Model Customization Team is at the forefront of this mission working on groundbreaking projects for customizing of 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
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