Applied Researcher 2 / Senior Applied Researcher

A position for Applied Researcher 2 / Senior Applied Researcher - CoreAI at Microsoft in the United States (Washington) focused on leading groundbreaking research projects and translating them from research into product. You will collaborate with scientists, engineers, and designers across Microsoft Research, Microsoft product teams, and Github. You will have opportunities to build and train state-of-the-art models and to apply and advance approaches using LLMs for software engineering, including methods such as RAG and evaluation. You will work closely with developer product teams to run experiments, evaluate, iterate, and scale AI projects.

• Contribute projects on the future of AI for developers.
• Collaborate across disciplines with product teams across Microsoft and Github.
• Stay up to date with the research literature and product advances in AI for software engineering.
• Create new datasets from both public code and Microsoft’s internal data.
• Build and manage large-scale ML experiments and models.
• Embody our Culture and Values.

Requirements

• Required

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in a relevant field and 1+ year of related research experience, or Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field and 2+ years of related research experience, or equivalent experience.
• Other

Requirements

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check to be passed upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Location considerations: United States, Washington.
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Doctorate in a relevant field or Master’s Degree with 3+ years of related research experience, or Bachelor’s Degree with 5+ years of related research experience, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of research/industrial experience with LLMs.
• Industrial/research experience with CodeLLM, Code Agent, or AI IDE.
• Experience participating in a top conference in the relevant research domain.
• Experience publishing academic papers as a lead author or essential contributor.