Microsoft Senior Research Scientist- Vision Document Understanding 

United States, Washington 

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• Doctorate in relevant field
  • OR equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Algorithmic problem solving and software development skills (Python, C/C++, etc.).
• Experience with LLMs/LMMS, and open-source tools such as PyTorch, etc.
• Publication(s) in top-tier conferences or journals in related fields (e.g., CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NIPS, ICML, ICLR, IJCV, PAMI, etc.)

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 22, 2024.

We are particularly looking for candidate with background in Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing and/or Artificial Intelligence, including topics like layout analysis, chart understanding, multi-page multi-document question answering, novel ways of leveraging large language models for document understanding and solving problems inherent to large language models (grounding, retrieval-based generation, etc.). Familiarity with modern large language models is a plus, but not required.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Conduct pioneering research to propel the state-of-the-art in various tasks in document understanding.
• Work closely with fellow research scientists and product engineering teams to translate research outcomes into practical solutions.
• Provide expertise and support to the engineering team on various challenges, fostering collaboration between research and practical application.
• Take charge of the research agenda from problem definition to algorithm and model development.
• Other: Embody our