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Microsoft Research (MSR) is a multidisciplinary global organization working to create scientific knowledge and deliver innovation that leads to positive human impact at scale. To envision and build the future, we work with our scientific, engineering, academic and business partners to use Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to impact economics, health and society. The Microsoft Research Americas Engineering team supports several MSR labs (Redmond, New England, New York City, and Montreal) and seeks an innovative and experienced Senior Research Software Engineer on the Agentic Experiences team to drive and contribute to a variety of research projects in various stages of research and productization. You will help deliver quality engineering solutions engaging in AI-native development methods, automation, and agentic workflows to design, build, evaluate, and ship software across Microsoft Research. You will collaborate with other engineers, researchers, and product teams to create innovative vision and drive high quality execution for high-impact and high-scale reach across all of Microsoft's portfolio, from core models, health, social and economics, coding and development, vision and graphics, systems and networks, and more. You will also be able to contribute to the shape our engineering culture, strategy, and execution, as well as modernize AI engineering practices all in support of accelerating our collective impact across Microsoft Research Americas, Microsoft and beyond.
Job Responsibility:
Individual Contributor Development: Independently design and build software using appropriate AI tools, frameworks and practices across the SDLC
Apply innovative AI agentic tooling and workflows for efficient code generation, evaluation, debugging, and refinement
Contribute to all layers of code and infrastructure to bring scientific experiments from prototypes to reliable and scalable products
Coding and Design: Owns or collaborates with other engineers on the architecture of solutions
Applies appropriate coding patterns and best practices
Engineering Excellence: Leads by example to produce extensible, maintainable, well-tested, secure, and performant code
Cross-Project Collaboration: Seek connections between MSR projects, design and develop better together systems
Technical Leadership: Collaborate with MSR Americas engineering leadership to contribute to a cohesive engineering vision
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, Python, Rust, C#, C++, Java, JavaScript OR equivalent experience.
Nice to have:
Master's Degree and/or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Python, Rust, C#, C++, Java, JavaScript
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Python, Rust, C#, C++, Java, JavaScript OR equivalent experience
2+ years technical leadership experience, defining milestones and helping an engineering team execute on their deliverables
Demonstrated experience on an engineering team within a research or innovation setting, with responsibilities spanning prototypes to production
Experience with Microsoft AI stack, including but not limited to Azure/AI Platform and Copilot based experiences and tools
Experience contributing to or delivering AI powered products at scale
Experience with early stage or first generation product development