Senior Researcher - Generative AI - Microsoft Research AI Frontiers

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

We are seeking a Senior Researcher - Generative AI to join our team in Redmond, WA or New York City, NY and lead efforts in the advancement of Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) technologies. As a Senior 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.

Our ongoing research areas encompass but are not limited to :

• Reasoning and inference-time compute strategies
• Action models for automating web and computer tasks
• Evaluation and Understanding of model and agent capabilities

The Microsoft Research AI Frontiers lab offers a vibrant environment forcutting-edge, multidisciplinary, research, including access to diverse, real-world problems and data, opportunities for experimentation and real-world impact, an open publication policy, and close links to top academic institutions around the world.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

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Research Sciences IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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 processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

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Not Applicable

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Full-time

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Information Technology

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Software Development

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