Microsoft Senior Researcher 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

558637949

Required Qualifications:

• Doctorate in relevant field AND 2+ years related-research experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• At least 2 AI-related publications in top-tier machine learning, programming language, HCI, software engineering or relevant venues (e.g. AAAI, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, EMNLP, NAACL, ACL, POPL, PLDI, OOPSLA, ICSE, FSE, CHI, UIST, and comparable).
• Ability to develop an original research agenda, demonstrated by leading at least one publication in a top-tier machine learning, programming language, software engineering, HCI or relevant venue.
• At least 3 years of prior research experience in machine learning, programming language, software engineering, or human-computer interaction.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience publishing academic papers as a lead author or essential contributor.
• Experience participating in a top conference in relevant-research domain.
• Experience working with large language models, including automated prompt tuning, fine-tuning, agents, planning, instruction-tuning and continued pre-training.
• Experience in training transformer-based models (including collecting and curating training data) as part of research projects in an industrial or academic setting.
• Experience with reinforcement learning and its applications to training LLMs.
• Have interests in applying machine learning to software engineering or data handling and analysis tasks.
• Hold previous industrial research internship positions.
• Experience collaborating across multi-disciplinary or multi-role teams.
• Strong communication skills.

• Design and carry out innovative AI research with applications to code and data platforms (e.g., Visual Studio and Excel).
• Work with engineers and PMs to deploy your research to customers.
• Collaborate with academic partners, mentor interns and longer-term .
• Publish in top-tier academic venues and interact with the broader academic community.