Senior Researcher Job at Microsoft Corporation (Redmond)

Senior Researcher

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
United States , Redmond

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

119800.00 - 234700.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

Copilot Tuning is a new AI product that adapts based on tenant data, enabling customer-specific agents and solutions. We are a small, nimble team that is advancing the state of the art of models in M365 Copilot. Come join our team and help transform the LLM (large language model) experience in the enterprise. We are seeking Senior Researcher with stellar research and system building skills and the desire to pursue the cutting edge in model development that pushes technological boundaries. We are looking for candidates with interest and experience in language model training, reinforcement learning, and supervised fine-tuning.

Job Responsibility:

Train and deploy Language Models adapted to specific industry needs
Create and adapt novel training and fine-tuning algorithms for tasks such as reasoning and search
Identifies, researches, and implements machine learning solutions given product requirements
Brings a research project to successful completion yielding new algorithms, prototypes, theories, tools, methods, analyses, insights, or collections of data which solve one or more open research problems
Document and share best practices across the organization
Supports mentorship by assisting with onboarding of research interns or other early in career team members

Requirements:

Doctorate in relevant field
OR Master's Degree in relevant field AND 3+ years related research experience
OR Bachelor's Degree in relevant field AND 4+ years related research experience
OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
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Doctorate in relevant field AND 3+ years related research experience
OR Master's Degree in relevant field AND 6+ years related research experience
OR Bachelor's Degree in relevant field AND 8+ years related research experience
OR equivalent experience
2+ years of experience training/fine tuning AI/ML models and/or LLMs
2+ years of experience building Generative AI pipelines, e.g. with RAG (retrieval augmented generation)
2+ years of experience with Python and/or PyTorch
Deep knowledge of transformer models and architectures
Experience with reinforcement learning algorithms and applications
Experience working with customers deploying AI solutions

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 26, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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