Member of Technical Staff, Evaluations Engineering

Microsoft AI is looking for a Member of Technical Staff, Evaluations Engineer to help build the next wave of capabilities of our personalized AI assistant, Copilot. We’re looking for someone who will bring an abundance of positive energy, empathy, and kindness to the team every day, in addition to being highly effective. The right candidate enjoys building world-class consumer experiences and products in a fast-paced environment. You will actively contribute to the development of AI models that are powering our innovative products. You will wear multiple hats and work on engineering, research, and everything in between. Your contributions will span model architecture, data curation, training and inference infrastructures, evaluation protocols, alignment and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), and many other exciting topics at the cutting edge of AI. Microsoft AI is building foundational models to develop novel responsible and efficient artificial general intelligence. Foundational models demand significant compute capacity, as a Member of Technical Staff, Evaluations Engineer, you will design and build the evaluation infrastructure for generative AI on large-scale GPU clusters. This role involves developing sophisticated tools and techniques to ensure the reliability, performance, and health of hundreds of nodes across supercomputers with thousands of GPUs. You will collaborate closely with model scientists to implement state-of-the-art and novel evaluation methods, inference strategies, and metrics algorithms, enabling smooth and efficient execution of evaluation workloads. As a contributing member of the core group of engineers, you would also bring to the table best practices driving architectural changes and influence roadmap of relevant software and hardware components. Your work will directly impact the business goals of a wide range of users and facilitate the next wave of growth and innovation in AI.