Research Sciences IC4

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

3d

About The Position

The Data and AI team in Microsoft’s Developer Division is working on the future of AI for Developers! We are a diverse, entrepreneurial and multi-disciplinary group of scientists, researchers and engineers with passion for using AI to improve the productivity of millions of developers around the world. We have released AI for code advancements in Github Copilot, VS Code, Visual Studio and other Microsoft Copilots. We are seeking an entrepreneurial and creative Senior Applied Scientist to lead groundbreaking research projects, taking these from research into product. You will collaborate with scientists, engineers and designers across Microsoft Research, Microsoft product teams and Github. You will have an opportunity to build and train state-of-the-art models, and opportunities to both apply and advance existing approaches of using LLMs for software engineering, from using RAG to evaluation. Most importantly, you will have an opportunity to work closely with several developer product teams to run experiments, evaluate, iterate and improve your AI projects on a large scale.

Requirements

• Doctorate in relevant field OR Master's Degree in relevant field AND 3+ years related research experience OR Bachelor's Degree in relevant field AND 4+ years related research experience OR equivalent experience.
• Background Check: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• Doctorate in relevant field AND 3+ years related research experience OR Master's Degree in relevant field AND 6+ years related research experience OR Bachelor's Degree in relevant field AND 8+ years related research experience OR equivalent experience.
• Experience publishing academic papers as a lead author or essential contributor.
• Experience participating in a top conference in relevant research domain.
• 2+ years of research/industrial experience with LLM.
• Strong engineering skills.
• Research experience CodeLLM is a plus.
• Experience publishing academic papers as a lead author or essential contributor is a plus.
• Experience participating in a top conference in relevant research domain is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects on the future of AI for developers
• Collaborate across disciplines with product teams across Microsoft and Github
• Design efficient inference algorithms for CodeLLM, CodeAgent.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees