Senior Researcher

Senior Researcher

Requirements

• Doctorate (or currently pursuing) in relevant field
• OR equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research and lead research collaborations that yield new insights, theories, analyses, data, algorithms, and/or prototypes that advance the state-of-the-art of computer science and engineering, as well as general scientific knowledge.
• Formulate research problems in an area of study and initiates the design, development, execution, and implementation of a research agenda to further academic knowledge and close identified gaps.
• Provide expertise to product or business groups and may create long-term business opportunities through research outcomes but not responsible for addressing immediate product needs or demonstrating a clear path to product.
• Gain an understanding of a broad area of research (e.g., Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Foundation Models, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Statistical Modeling, Deep Learning, etc.) and the corresponding literature and applicable research techniques.
• Identify the solvable components of a larger research problem.
• Research new tools, technologies, and methods being used in the research community.
• Bring a component of a research project to successful completion yielding new algorithms, prototypes, theories, tools, methods, analyses, insights, or collections of data which solve one or more components of larger research problem.
• Understand and follow ethics and privacy policies when executing research processes and/or collecting data/information.
• Gain an understanding of research as it relates to Microsoft products or business groups and assist in technology transfer attempts, participate on standards organizations, file patents, author white papers, develop or maintain tools/services for internal Microsoft use, or consult for product or business groups.
• Collaborate with members of research group to contribute to existing work on a research problem and assist in writing and/or presenting papers at workshops and conferences. Publish papers as co-author or lead author for high-quality conferences and journals, with an impact like that of a post-doctorate.
• Support mentorship by assisting with onboarding of research interns or other entry-level team members.

Preferred Qualifications

• A publication record at top conferences (e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CHI, etc.)