Job Description:
Microsoft AI is looking for a Member of Technical Staff, Pre-Training Infrastructure, to help build the next wave of capabilities for our personalized AI assistant, Copilot. We're seeking someone who brings an abundance of positive energy, empathy, and kindness to the team every day, in addition to being highly effective. The ideal candidate enjoys building world-class consumer experiences and products in a fast-paced environment. You will actively contribute to the development of AI models powering our innovative products. Expect to wear multiple hats and work across engineering, research, and everything in between. Your contributions will span model architecture, data curation, training and inference infrastructure, 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 the training infrastructure that powers frontier-scale models and advances research toward humanist superintelligence. As a Member of Technical Staff, Pre-Training Infrastructure, you will contribute to a fast-moving codebase that enables training at unprecedented scale. This role focuses on building and optimizing the software stack for massive GPU clusters, high-throughput storage systems, and cutting-edge AI research. You will work closely with model scientists to scale up the latest research recipes, implement new forms of distributed training parallelism, and ensure the reliability and performance of thousands of GPUs across our supercomputing fleet. Profiling, benchmarking, debugging, and fine-grained optimization are core to this role, demanding both engineering rigor and creativity. As a contributing member of the core engineering group, you will also bring best practices, drive architectural changes, and influence the roadmap for relevant software and hardware components. Your work will directly impact business goals for a wide range of users and facilitate the next wave of growth and innovation in AI. Our newly formed organization, Microsoft AI, is dedicated to advancing Copilot and other consumer AI products and research. The team is responsible for Copilot, Bing, Edge, and generative AI research. Come be part of the team shaping the future of personal computing.
