Microsoft Senior Researcher 

United States, Washington 

949106239

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• ​​Doctorate in relevant field
  • 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, embedding models, semantic re-rankers, graphRAG and related domains. Experience publishing academic papers and building research prototypes as a lead author or essential contributor.​

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 January 1, 2025.

• ​​Identifies and articulates problems in an area of research that are academically novel and may directly or indirectly impact business opportunities.
• Advances a research agenda through one or more research 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.
• Masters one or more subareas and gains expertise in a broad area of research (e.g., Machine Learning [ML], Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Search systems); understands the corresponding literature, applicable research techniques, and academic context.
• Researches and develops an understanding of the state-of-the-art insights, tools, technologies, or methods being used in the research community; applies deep subject matter expert knowledge around several specialized tools/methods to support planning for research projects. Begins to evaluate insights based on their impact and value.
• Expands collaborative relationships with relevant product and business groups inside or outside of Microsoft as a world expert and provides expertise or technology to them. Takes initiative and participates in activities such as technology transfers attempts, standards organizations, filing patents, authoring white papers, developing or maintaining tools/services for internal Microsoft use, or consulting for product or business groups.
• Collaborates with other relevant researchers or research groups to contribute to or advance a research agenda; reviews papers and organizes workshops or conference sessions. Publishes papers as lead author for high-quality conferences and journals, with an impact similar to that of a (United States) assistant professor.​

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