Microsoft Research AI Frontiers Lab: Senior Principal Researcher – Generative AI

Location: Redmond, WA or New York City, NY

The AI Frontiers lab aims to expand the pareto frontier of Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities, efficiency, and safety through innovations in foundation models and learning agent platforms. Our projects include work on Small Language Models (e.g., Phi, Orca) and agentic AI systems (e.g., AutoGen, MagenticOne, OmniParser).

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Principal Researcher – Generative AI to join our team and lead efforts on the advancement of Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) technologies. As a Senior Principal Researcher – Generative AI, you will play a crucial role in leading, developing, improving, and exploring the capabilities of Generative AI models. Your work will have a significant impact on the development of cutting-edge technologies, advancing state-of-the-art and providing practical solutions to real-world problems.

Research Areas

• Reasoning and inference-time compute strategies
• Action models for automating web and computer tasks
• Learning and memory for agentic AI systems to enable them to evolve and adapt over time
• Orchestration and multi-agent systems: automated orchestration between multiple agents incorporating human feedback and oversight
• Evaluation and understanding of model and agent capabilities

Responsibilities

• As a Senior Principal Researcher in MSR, you will perform cutting-edge research in collaboration with other researchers, engineers, and product groups.
• As a member of a world-class research organization, you will be a part of research breakthroughs in the field and will be given an opportunity to realize your ideas in products and services used worldwide.
• Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Doctorate in Computer Science or relevant field AND 5+ years related research experience OR equivalent experience.
• Research program demonstrated by publications at conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, NAACL, CVPR, COLT, ECCV, ICCV, EMNLP.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Doctorate in Computer Science or relevant field AND 8+ years related research experience OR equivalent experience.
• Experience publishing academic papers as a lead author or essential contributor in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
• Experience participating in a top conference in the relevant research domain.
• Demonstrable ability to define an ambitious, original research agenda.
• Ability to collaborate, communicate effectively, and technically lead a multi-disciplinary team.
• Keen interest in real-world applications and impact.

Research Sciences IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $161,600 - $286,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $209,600 - $314,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay.

Microsoft will accept applications and process offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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