Microsoft Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer 

United States, Washington 

433280082

Strategic Planning and Architecture

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

Required Qualifications

• Doctorate or Master's in relevant field

  • OR equivalent experience.

• Experience in ML systems/Model optimizations/Efficient model architecture.

Other Requirements

• 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.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications:

• Master's Degree/PhDin Machine learning, ComputerArchitecture/Systems, High-PerformanceComputingor related areas.
• 3+ years experience in ML systems/Model optimizations/Efficient model architecture.
• Track recordoforiginal research anddelivering novel resultsin ML systems area.
• Hands-on experiencewithframeworks such asPyTorch/TensorFlow/TensorRT.
• Deep knowledge ofCNN/transformer architecture andoptimizationstrategies– quantization, sparsity, NAS, sharding,KV Cache, Flash Attention.
• Solid programming skills in Python/C/C++.
• Experience inimplementing low-level linear algebra/BLASkernelsand performance optimizations.
• Outstanding communication skills.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 28, 2024.

• Driving model/HW codesign.
• Developing andanalysingnovel NN architectures.
• Inventing novellow-precisiondata formats.
• Inventing novel model architectures.
• Collaborating withdata scientists and ML researchers.
• Interfacing with HW architecture teams.
• Interfacing with SW framework teams.
• Embody our