Microsoft Principal Researcher 

United States, Washington 

970485365

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Doctorate in relevant field AND 3+ years related-research experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
    

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

• Experience participating in a top conference in information retrieval, dense retrieval, vector search, embeddings, GraphRAG and related domains. Experience publishing academic papers as a lead author or essential contributor.
• Doctorate in relevant field AND 5+ years related-research experience OR equivalent experience.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 1, 2025.

• Expands collaborative relationships with product or business group leaders inside or outside Microsoft as a world expert and provides expertise or technology to them. Contributes to product or business group decisions at a strategic level by sharing input and expertise. Creates a measurable impact on the business.
• Identifies and articulates a clear long-term research agenda that is academically novel and may incorporate current or anticipated business priorities.
• Leads a collaborative research effort (possibly spanning multiple teams/Universities inside and outside of Microsoft) to advance a long-term research agenda through multiple projects, yielding new algorithms, prototypes, theories, tools, methods, analyses, insights, or collections of data in one or more subareas or a broad area of research to create societal impact.
• Serves as a top industry/academic leader and accomplished expert in a broad area of research (e.g., Machine Learning [ML], Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Statistical Modeling) or gains unique knowledge in a specific area of research; understands the corresponding literature, applicable research techniques, and business and academic context.
• Proactively provides mentorship and coaching to less experienced and mid-level team members (e.g., interns, early-in-career researchers, senior researchers, Ph.D. candidates) by sharing expertise to build team capabilities and guiding team members in research projects and their careers. Represents Microsoft externally to grow network and attract/cultivate talent and desired capabilities. Helps to develop a capability strategy that serves long-term research objectives and attracts/cultivates talent and desired capabilities.
• Collaborates effectively with multiple research teams and researchers in other organizations to advance a long-term research agenda; acts as a major contributor to influential publications, serves on workshop and conference organizing committees, and delivers talks as an invited speaker, with an impact similar to that of a (United States) tenured associate professor.

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