Currently tracking 427 active AI roles, up 208% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $65k–$331k (avg $193k).
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|---|---|---|
| Research Intern - AI Frontiers Research Intern position at Microsoft AI Frontiers Lab focusing on advancing agentic model capabilities. The role involves creating models and agents that can perform tasks across digital systems using automation, reasoning, and interaction, leveraging both text and visual environments. The research includes areas like reinforcement learning for reasoning and tool use, novel training algorithms, synthetic environment creation, multi-agent training, scaling laws, and optimization techniques. The role also involves working with various data modalities and modern model architectures, with a focus on publishing in top-tier venues and potentially shipping AI technologies in products. | AgentPost-train | 10 |
| Senior Researcher - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - Microsoft Research Senior Researcher in AI/ML at Microsoft Research New England, focusing on defining and driving an independent research agenda in theoretical and applied AI/ML. Requires a PhD and a strong publication record at top venues. |
| Pretrain |
| 10 |
| Researcher Researcher at Microsoft Research India focusing on advancing innovation in AI/ML, including new models, scalable ML architectures, systems support, and large-scale applications. The role involves tackling open research problems, collaborating with teams, and driving research towards impactful publications and industry trends. | Pretrain | 10 |
| Senior Researcher - Foundations of Generative AI- Microsoft Research Senior Researcher focused on the foundations of generative AI, including new architectures, representations, and learning objectives for foundation models and learning agent platforms. Research areas include proactive agents, test time training, active visual reasoning, world models, multi-scale temporal reasoning, continual learning, multimodal models (VLM, VLA), and real-time agents. | PretrainAgent | 10 |
| Research Intern - MSR Montreal / ML Team Research Intern position at Microsoft Research Montreal focusing on advancing LLM research in reasoning, interaction (RL training), and modularity, specifically for agentic coding LLMs. The role involves developing, improving, and exploring AI model capabilities, contributing to cutting-edge technologies, and potentially publishing research. | PretrainPost-train | 10 |
| Principal Researcher Applied research role focused on advancing efficiency across the AI stack (models, ML frameworks, cloud infrastructure, hardware) for generative AI serving systems. The role involves exploring algorithmic, systems, and hardware/software co-design techniques for optimizations like batching, routing, scheduling, caching, and GPU architecture-aware optimizations. Emphasis on end-to-end ownership, driving research through prototyping, validation, and deployment to production for measurable customer impact. | Serve | 9 |
| Principal Researcher - Agentic AI - Microsoft Research AI Frontiers Principal Researcher focused on expanding AI capabilities, efficiency, and safety through innovations in foundation models and learning agent platforms. The role involves developing self-improving, adaptive agents for dynamic enterprise environments, integrating pre-training, post-training, RL, multi-agent collaboration, and deployment. Key responsibilities include research on recursive self-improvement, continual learning, human-AI collaboration, and building robust evaluation frameworks and synthetic data pipelines. | AgentData | 9 |
| Senior Researcher - Agentic AI - Microsoft Research AI Frontiers Research Scientist focused on agentic AI, developing self-improving, multi-agent systems that learn through interaction. The role involves research on recursive self-improvement, adaptive coordination, continual learning, human-AI collaboration, and autonomous skill acquisition. It spans the research-to-deployment spectrum with a focus on building evaluation frameworks and synthetic data pipelines, and refining architectures for scalability. The work is grounded in foundation models and learning agent platforms, with potential for product impact and publication. | AgentData | 9 |
| Principal Applied Scientist Seeking a Principal Applied Scientist to research and develop novel AI agents, focusing on agentic systems, multi-step reasoning, and tool use. This role involves pushing the boundaries of AI agent capabilities and contributing to impactful AI products. | Agent | 9 |
| Research Intern - AI Frontiers - Reasoning & Agentic Models Research Intern position focused on advancing agentic model capabilities, including reasoning, tool use, and interaction across text and visual environments. The role involves developing novel training algorithms, exploring synthetic environments, multi-agent training, and scaling laws, with a focus on foundational models and modern architectures. The internship offers a chance to publish findings and potentially ship AI technologies in products. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Research Intern - Foundation Models and Agentic Systems Research intern role focused on advancing Generative AI and LLM technologies, specifically in foundation models and agentic systems. The work involves developing, improving, and exploring LLMs and Multimodal AI models, with research areas including reasoning, orchestration, multi-agent systems, and evaluation. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Senior Principal Researcher - Microsoft Research AI Frontiers Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research AI Frontiers focused on pushing the boundaries of agentic AI, including large language and multimodal models, reasoning, and multi-agent systems. The role involves leading research, developing training methodologies, curating datasets, designing evaluation frameworks, and prototyping new agentic capabilities, with opportunities for publication and real-world impact. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Researcher - Multiple Levels, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers Research role focused on pushing the boundaries of agentic AI, large language, and multimodal models. The role involves developing cutting-edge training methodologies, curating datasets, designing evaluation frameworks, and prototyping new agentic capabilities. Emphasis on research, publication, and potential for real-world impact. | PretrainAgent | 9 |
| Research SDE II Research SDE II at Microsoft Research India focusing on advancing AI/ML innovation, including new models, scalable architectures, systems support, and large-scale applications. The role involves working closely with researchers and engineers, driving end-to-end research and development, and potentially mentoring interns. Requires strong coding and engineering skills, comfort with open problems, and a proven track record in AI/ML. | Post-trainServe | 9 |
| Principal Researcher - Artificial Specialized Intelligence - Microsoft Research Principal Researcher in Artificial Specialized Intelligence focusing on developing cutting-edge large foundation models and post-training techniques for specific domains and scenarios. The role involves integrating AI systems, developing research prototypes, and publishing findings in top-tier venues. | PretrainPost-train | 9 |
| Senior Researcher - Artificial Specialized Intelligence - Microsoft Research Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research focusing on Artificial Specialized Intelligence, developing cutting-edge large foundation models and post-training techniques for specific domains and real-world applications. The role involves conducting research, collaborating with cross-functional teams, developing prototypes, and publishing findings. | PretrainPost-train | 9 |
| Technical Advisor, Microsoft Superintelligence (Office of the CEO) Technical Advisor to the CEO of Microsoft AI, focusing on Humanist Superintelligence. The role involves providing strategic counsel, diving deep into research problems (model evaluation, prototyping, technical tradeoffs), and synthesizing insights for executive decision-making. It spans model development, infrastructure, safety, and alignment, requiring a blend of technical expertise and strategic advisory. | Post-trainServe | 9 |
| Research Intern - Foundations of GenAI Research Intern role focused on advancing Generative AI and Large Language Model Technologies, contributing to the development and exploration of LLMs and Multimodal AI models. The lab's mission is to expand AI capabilities, efficiency, and safety through innovations in foundation models and learning agent platforms, with research areas including reasoning, new architectures, action models, multi-agent systems, and evaluation. | PretrainAgent | 9 |
| Senior Researcher - AI Systems - Microsoft Research Senior Researcher in AI Systems at Microsoft Research, focusing on AI infrastructure, ML systems, and HPC systems to improve efficiency and scalability across the full AI model lifecycle, including pre-training, fine-tuning, post-training, and inference. | ServePost-train | 9 |
| Research Intern - Machine Learning and Optimization Research Intern position focused on the intersection of Machine Learning, Optimization, and Large Language Models (LLMs) for efficient decision-making. Projects involve training LLMs for algorithm design, accelerating optimization algorithms, and using LLMs for sequential decision-making. The role involves designing algorithms/models, prototyping, conducting experiments, and potentially contributing to publications. | PretrainAgent | 9 |
| Research Intern - LLM Performance Optimization Research Intern role focused on optimizing the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs), involving architecture and inference performance. Requires PhD student status in a STEM field and experience with LLM architecture or inference performance optimization. Preferred qualifications include experience with GPU kernel performance bottlenecks and optimizing compiler architecture. | Serve | 9 |
| Research Software Engineer - Multiple Levels- AI Frontiers Research Software Engineer focused on Generative AI and agentic applications within Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers lab. The role involves developing, improving, and exploring capabilities of AI models and agentic systems, with a focus on creating reliable digital workers that can execute entire workflows and collaborate with humans and other agents. Key areas include enhancing agent reasoning, improving robustness, reimagining workflows for an agent-native world, and creating end-to-end experiences. | AgentData | 9 |
| Principal Research Engineer - Generative AI - AI Frontiers Research Engineer at Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers lab focused on advancing AI capabilities in modeling, algorithms, reasoning, and agentic AI. The role involves developing novel ideas in reinforcement learning, evolving pre-training and post-training codebases, and collaborating on state-of-the-art reasoning and agentic AI. Opportunities to ship research to Microsoft customers and expand AI capabilities, efficiency, and safety. | PretrainAgent | 9 |
| Research Intern - Diagnostic Imaging AI, Imaging Computing, Reconstruction and Inverse Problem Research Intern role focused on AI for medical image reconstruction and analysis. Involves developing new imaging AI model architectures, training methods, solving inverse problems for image reconstruction, and analyzing model performance including artifacts and hallucinations. Requires PhD enrollment, deep learning for imaging experience, and publication record. | Post-trainData | 9 |
| Research Intern - OneDrive and SharePoint (Summer 2026) Research intern to investigate, propose, implement, and evaluate new approaches in LLMs, Multimodal AI, Reinforcement Learning, Conversational AI, and AI Agents for OneDrive and SharePoint. Will conduct experiments, develop AI models, design evaluation metrics, build datasets, and deliver models for content understanding and use across various modalities. Focus on applying scientific methods to real-world problems in content and collaboration. | AgentData | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Post-Training This role focuses on post-training methods for AI models, including continual pre-training, large-scale deep reinforcement learning, and data synthesis. The team works on language and multimodal models, with a focus on code-specific applications like Github Copilot. They also develop data infrastructure, tooling, and conduct research to improve model performance and impact. The role involves designing datasets, advancing model training, and ensuring data quality for cutting-edge AI. | Post-trainData | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Post-Training This role focuses on advancing post-training methods for AI models, including continual pre-training, large-scale deep reinforcement learning, and fine-tuning. The team works on both OpenAI and open-source models, develops data infrastructure for large datasets, and creates tooling for dataset auditing. They also integrate language and multi-modality for products like Github Copilot and Visual Studio Code, with a mission to push the boundaries of AI toward Humanist Superintelligence. | Post-trainData | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Machine Learning (AI Team) Research role focused on creating LLM models for general purpose capabilities and products, with a focus on agentive applications and advancing AI towards controllable, safety-aligned superintelligence. Responsibilities include developing new training methods, data collection, evaluation, and building user-facing features. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Machine Learning (AI Team) This role focuses on creating and improving LLM models for general-purpose capabilities and products, with a strong emphasis on agentive applications and safety alignment. The responsibilities include developing new training methods, collecting data, evaluating LLMs, building data flywheels, creating tooling for training/evals, writing production code, and developing new user-facing features. The role involves working on core LLM capabilities, fine-tuning, and training classifiers to support Microsoft products and APIs, with a specific focus on advancing towards 'Humanist Superintelligence' that is controllable and safety-aligned. | Post-trainAgent | 9 |
| Research Intern - AIP AI Knowledge Multimodal AI Research Intern role focusing on multimodal AI, specifically the synergy between vision and language. The intern will explore LLMs, SLMs, and VLMs for tasks like video understanding, document analysis, and multi-page QA, with hands-on experience in leveraging LLMs for document understanding, grounding, and retrieval-based generation. The role involves prototyping, experimenting, and publishing research. | Post-trainAgent | 9 |
| Research Intern - Deep Learning Group Research Intern position in Microsoft's Deep Learning group focusing on cutting-edge research in deep learning, AI, and related fields. The intern will collaborate with researchers, work on challenging problems, and potentially publish their findings. The role requires a PhD student with experience in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and mathematical modeling. | Pretrain | 9 |
| Research Intern - Office of Applied Research Research intern position focusing on Generative AI, LLMs, NLP, Reinforcement Learning, and Human-Centered AI. The role involves research in areas like collaborative AI agents, multi-agent simulations, tool-use, learning from user feedback, synthetic data generation, LLM evaluation, and model fine-tuning. Requires a PhD program enrollment and research publication experience. | Post-trainAgent | 9 |
| Research Software Development Engineer Microsoft Research India is seeking research engineers with a demonstrated track record in AI/ML, including new models, scalable ML architectures, systems support for such workloads, and innovative large-scale applications of ML models. The role involves working closely with researchers and engineers, comfortable with open problems and changing requirements, and driving end-to-end research and development from ideation to deployment. | Post-trainServe | 9 |
| Research Intern - Memory & Orchestration in Large Language Models Research intern role focused on developing new LLM memory representation and orchestration systems, including advanced RAG and embedding techniques, for enterprise and consumer applications. | Agent | 9 |
| Senior Researcher - AI Agents - Microsoft Research Senior Researcher focused on advancing state-of-the-art in agentic systems and ecosystems, including building agent-native ecosystems, developing advanced agentic capabilities through post-training methods, creating novel human-agent interaction techniques, and developing evaluation benchmarks and tooling for agents. The role emphasizes outcome-driven innovation, collaborative innovation, problem-solving, decision-making, and the scientific method, with a strong publication policy and potential for shipping AI technologies. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Senior Researcher - Multimodal AI - Microsoft Research AI Frontiers Senior Researcher in Microsoft Research AI Frontiers lab focusing on expanding AI capabilities, efficiency, and safety through innovations in foundation models and learning agent platforms. The role involves research into Generative AI and Multimodal Model (MLM) technologies, including reasoning, architectures, training methods, action models, orchestration, multi-agent systems, and evaluation. | PretrainAgent | 9 |
| Research Engineer - Generative AI - AI Frontiers Research Engineer role at Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers lab focused on advancing AI capabilities in modeling, algorithms, reasoning, and agentic AI. The role involves developing novel ideas in reinforcement learning, evolving pre-training, mid-training, and post-training codebases for LLMs, and contributing to reasoning and agentic AI research. Opportunities to ship research to Microsoft customers. | Post-trainAgent | 9 |
| Senior Researcher - Artificial Intelligence - Microsoft Research Senior Researcher in Microsoft Research's AI Interaction and Learning team, focusing on collaborative AI systems where humans and AI agents work together. The role involves pushing the boundaries of learning and reasoning with foundation models, developing innovative AI/ML techniques, and shaping the team's research agenda. Key interests include designing metrics for evolving goals, eliciting preferences under uncertainty, and managing information flow for coordination. The role requires a PhD and experience in areas like Foundation Models, RL, NLP, and Deep Learning, with a strong publication record in top-tier venues. | PretrainAgent | 9 |
| Senior Researcher - Generative AI - Microsoft Research AI Frontiers Senior Researcher in Generative AI at Microsoft Research AI Frontiers, focusing on expanding AI capabilities, efficiency, and safety through innovations in foundation models and learning agent platforms. The role involves leading research in Generative AI and LLMs, with projects including Small Language Models and agentic AI systems. Key research areas include reasoning, action models for tasks, and evaluation of model/agent capabilities. The position offers a vibrant research environment with an open publication policy and opportunities for real-world impact. | PretrainAgent | 9 |
| Senior Researcher - Artificial Specialized Intelligence, Microsoft Research Senior Researcher in Artificial Specialized Intelligence focusing on developing cutting-edge large foundation models and post-training techniques for specific domains and scenarios. The role involves conducting research, collaborating with cross-functional teams, developing prototypes, and publishing findings. | Post-trainPretrain | 9 |
| Research Intern - Microsoft Research Special Projects Research intern focused on advancing Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities, specifically in areas like memory representations, retrieval methods (e.g., GraphRAG), handling temporal changes, ambiguity, and hallucination detection/mitigation. | Post-trainAgent | 9 |
| Research Intern - Machine Learning and Optimization - Redmond Research intern position focusing on the intersection of Machine Learning and Optimization, specifically combining Large Language Models (LLMs) with optimization for efficient decision-making. Projects involve training LLMs for algorithm design, accelerating optimization algorithms, and using LLMs for sequential/distributed decision-making. The role involves designing algorithms/models, prototyping, conducting experiments, and analyzing results, with potential contributions to papers. | Post-trainAgent | 9 |
| Research Intern - Training Methods for LLM Efficiency Research intern to design and apply training algorithms for improving the quality/efficiency trade-offs of large language models, focusing on resource-constrained environments. Potential research directions include quantized model fine-tuning, improving token efficiency for reasoning models, and scaling training under resource constraints. | Post-trainData | 9 |
| Research Intern - Model Optimization and HW Acceleration Research Intern role focusing on optimizing LLMs, VLMs, and generative models, with an emphasis on hardware acceleration. The role involves designing experiments, developing algorithms, and collaborating on practical solutions, aiming to advance AI technologies. | Post-trainServe | 9 |
| Research Intern - Multimodal Language Models Research intern to explore efficient multimodal language models using techniques like model compression, quantization, and optimization for resource-constrained platforms. Focus on training strategies for vision-language tasks, prototype implementation, experiment design, and result analysis. | Post-trainServe | 9 |
| Research Intern - Fundamentals of AI: Security, Agents, Systems & Control Research Intern role focused on advancing core AI research in security, agentic workflows, and next-generation architectures. Key areas include strengthening AI robustness, designing post-training alignment strategies for multi-turn interactions, and investigating novel architectures beyond transformers. The role involves fundamental research and system-level applications, leveraging shared resources and evaluation frameworks. | Post-trainAgent | 9 |
| Research Intern - AI Frontiers - Reasoning & Agentic Models Research intern role focused on advancing agentic model capabilities, including reasoning, tool use, and end-to-end workflow execution across text and visual environments. The role involves research in reinforcement learning, novel training algorithms, synthetic environment creation, multi-agent training, and scaling laws, with a focus on foundational models and various data modalities. The internship aims to contribute to cutting-edge research and potentially ship AI technologies in products. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Research Intern - Machine Learning and Statistics Research Intern position in Machine Learning and Statistics at Microsoft Research New England, focusing on advancing the state-of-the-art in applied and theoretical ML research. Projects cover a broad range of ML topics including generative models, transfer learning, optimal transport, reinforcement learning, and deep learning. | Pretrain | 9 |
| Research Intern - Artificial Intelligence Research Intern position at Microsoft Research focusing on artificial intelligence projects including multimodality, world models, LLMs, and computer vision. The role involves conducting research, developing novel methodologies, and disseminating findings through publications. Requires enrollment in a master's or PhD program. | Pretrain | 9 |
| Research Intern - Artificial Intelligence Research Intern position at Microsoft focusing on advancing artificial intelligence through research in areas like multimodality, world models, LLMs, computer vision, AI4Code, robotics, and agents. The role involves conducting research, developing novel methodologies, and disseminating findings through publications. | Pretrain | 9 |