Microsoft Cambridge Residency Programme AI Design Researcher 

United Kingdom, England, Cambridge 

162900187

This 2-year residency offers a unique opportunity to contribute to state-of-the-art research at the intersection of AI and human-computer interaction in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team. This role includes:

• Facilitating communication between researchers from different disciplines and contexts through, for example, workshops
• Conceptualizing and developing innovative AI experiences
• Prototyping, iterating and testing AI experiences
• Designing for inclusion through working directly with users
• Developing showables / materials to help the team innovate as well as engage external audiences

Required

• Masters or PhD in design, human-computer interaction or related discipline
• Ability to lead ideation activities to support multi-disciplinary team working
• Effective communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment
• Strong visual and/or auditory design skills
• Ability to synthesize findings and requirements from user research or product partners

Desired

• Experience designing AI system interfaces
• Budding leadership capability to drive own work in the context of the team goals
• Experience engaging with people from marginalized communities.

• Plan and carry out activities to support interaction and ideation between people on a multi-disciplinary team
• Propose creative solutions to complex user experience journeys, drawing on your ability to map end-to-end experiences
• Create wireframes, journey maps, personas and scenarios in support of interaction designs
• Plan, carry-out and facilitate qualitative user research (user studies, workshops, focus groups, usability tests)
• Develop showables / materials to help the team innovation process and engage external audiences