Senior Researcher - AI Systems - Microsoft Research

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · Redmond, WA +1 · Research Sciences

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.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive high-impact research in AI infrastructure, ML systems, HPC systems, with a focus on building large production-scale systems.
  2. Collaborate to develop and test out new ideas within existing or new collaborative teams.
  3. Build and maintain state of the art systems in this space.
  4. Collaborate in preparing technical papers and presentations.

Skills

Required

  • Doctorate (or currently pursuing) in ML systems, high-performance computing, or relevant fields
  • 3+ years related research experience

Nice to have

  • 3 years of experience building large scale AI infrastructure, ML systems, and/or HPC systems
  • Active participation in engineering efforts in the above areas, with involvement in building and maintaining systems
  • Active participation in research as demonstrated by publications
  • Demonstrable ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team

What the JD emphasized

  • Doctorate (or are currently pursuing) in ML systems, high-performance computing, or relevant fields AND 3+ years related research experience
  • 3 years of experience building large scale AI infrastructure, ML systems, and/or HPC systems.
  • Active participation in engineering efforts in the above areas, with involvement in building and maintaining systems.
  • Active participation in research as demonstrated by publications.

Other signals

  • AI infrastructure
  • ML systems
  • high-performance computing (HPC) systems
  • full AI model lifecycle
  • pre-training
  • supervised fine-tuning
  • reinforcement-learning-based post-training
  • inference