Microsoft Senior Machine Learning Research Scientist 

United Kingdom, England, Cambridge 

142535686

Strategic Planning and Architecture

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This role is for a highly motivated Machine Learning Engineer with a strong background in neural networks and hardware. You will be involved with both model development, data type analysis,

Master's Degree/PhD in Machinelearning, Computer Architecture/Systems, High-Performanceor related areas.

years of experience in ML systems/Model optimizations/Efficient model architecture

Track recordoriginal research anddelivering novel resultsin ML systems area

Hands on experienceframeworks such as

Deep knowledge oftransformer architecture and– quantization, sparsity, NAS, sharding,KV Cache, Flash Attention

Strong programming skills in Python/C/C++

Experience inimplementing low-level linear algebraand performance optimisations

Knowledge of GPU, TPU or similar NPU accelerator architecture

Outstanding communication skills

• Driving model/hardwarecodesign
• Developing andanalysingnovelLLMarchitectures
• Inventing novellow-precisiondata/numberformatsfortraining/inferenceSOTALLMs
• Inventing novelefficientmodel architectures(e.g., sparse LLMs, attention architecture)
• Collaborating withdata scientists and ML researchers
• Interfacing with HW architecture teams
• Interfacing with SW framework teams