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Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data. Within Azure Data, the big data analytics team provides a range of products that enable data engineers and data scientists to extract intelligence from all data. We are hiring for the Gray Systems Lab (GSL), an applied research group part of the Azure Data CTO office. GSL tackles interesting challenges in both open-source and proprietary technologies related to analytics, cloud, AI, and storage systems among others. The current role is for a lead of the LLM team in GSL.
Job Responsibility:
Lead a small team in exploring research topics and creating real world impact
Work on the latest technology of LLMs and Data Science and apply them to some of the largest problems in industry
Apply innovative algorithms for solving placement and load balancing problems at scale
Model - Live our culture
Embody our values
Practice our leadership principles
Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes
Enable success across boundaries
Help the team adapt and learn
Care - Attract and retain great people
Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations
Invest in the growth of others
Business Understanding and Impact: Leverages subject matter expertise and organizational resources to analyze overarching problems and issues facing projects
Data Preparation and Understanding: Leverages technical expertise to support team members and manage activities taken to construct final dataset from initial raw data
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research)
OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience
OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years related experience
OR equivalent experience
3+ years of people management experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Nice to have:
Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 12+ years related experience
OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years related experience
OR equivalent experience
7+ years of people management experience
3+ years experience presenting at conferences or other events in the outside research/industry community as an invited speaker
7+ years experience conducting research as part of a research program (in academic or industry settings)
5+ years experience developing and deploying live production systems, as part of a product team
7+ years experience developing and deploying products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping