Junior Research Engineer – Generative AI – AI Frontiers

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Job Summary:

Microsoft is a leading technology company focused on advancing Artificial Intelligence capabilities. The Research Engineer position in the AI Frontiers lab offers a unique opportunity to tackle challenging problems in AI, particularly in reinforcement learning and large language models, while collaborating with a team of researchers and engineers.

Responsibilities:

• As a Research Engineer in AI Frontiers, you will design, develop, execute, and implement technology research projects in collaboration with other researchers, engineers, and product groups.

• As a member of a word-class research organization, you will be a part of research breakthroughs in the field and play a crucial role in developing, improving, and exploring the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), reasoning and agentic AI.

• Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelors in Computer Science or relevant field AND 2+ years related experience

• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 1+ year(s) related experience

• OR Doctorate in Computer Science or related field

• OR equivalent experience

• 1+ year(s) experience developing with Python and Pytorch/JAX.

Preferred:

• Familiarity with architecture and optimizations for large language models.

• Hands-on work in debugging and profiling Pytorch distributed code.

• Basic understanding of working of CUDA kernels.

• Familiarity with pre-training, mid-training and/or post-training pipelines for language and/or multimodal models.

• Foundational understanding of reinforcement learning and key challenges in the field.

• Experience with verl, Ray, Megatron and/or vLLM is a significant plus.

• Any experience in building scalable services can be highly complementary.

Company:

Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Founded in 1975, headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, team size 10001+ employees, currently Public Company. Microsoft has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.