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Senior Product Manager, Foundational AI Research

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Microsoft Corporation

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United States , Mountain View

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Salary:

119800.00 - 234700.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

At Microsoft AI, we are on a mission to train the world’s most capable AI frontier models, pushing the boundaries of scale, performance, and product deployment. We’re tackling some of the most challenging problems in deep learning at scale. As a team, we will deliver one of the best foundation models in the world and use it to solve real world problems. As a Principal Product Manager, Foundational Research, you will be advancing the next generation of LLM models working on either (1) pre-training and post-training data and evaluations, (2) training infrastructure, or (3) API and Platform. You will be responsible for working backward from customer needs to prioritize new research, build evals and datasets, and work closely with AI researchers to build and execute project plans.

Job Responsibility:

  • Identify and prioritize language / coding / multimodal issues and work with researchers to find a path to resolution
  • Create novel data collection tasks for taskers to evaluate models and to collect training data for fine-tuning
  • Create model prototypes to prove out new feature directions and scope projects
  • Collaborate closely with teams on infrastructure, data engineering, pre-training, post-training, and product feedback
  • Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and growth
  • Advance the AI frontier responsibly

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience
  • 2+ years direct, hands-on collaboration with model researchers and ML engineers in areas such as training runs, data evaluation, infrastructure, coding, or safety
  • Experience building and shipping data pipelines or evaluation systems personally

Nice to have:

  • A technical postgraduate degree is strongly preferred
  • a PhD is ideal but not mandatory
  • Demonstrated ability to bring enterprise or developer products to market by deeply engaging with end customers

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 19, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
On-site work
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