Principal Research Scientist

1 Month ago • 3-5 Years • Artificial Intelligence • $137,600 PA - $294,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Microsoft's Data and Artificial Intelligence team seeks a Principal Research Scientist to contribute to groundbreaking research in AI for software engineering. This role involves taking research projects from inception to product integration, collaborating with scientists, engineers, and designers across Microsoft Research, product teams, and GitHub. Responsibilities include advancing state-of-the-art AI for software engineering, collaborating with product teams, staying updated on research literature, building large-scale AI experiments and models, and integrating AI across the software development stack for Copilot. The ideal candidate will have a doctorate in a relevant field and significant research experience, with a proven track record of publishing academic papers and working on large-scale AI projects.
Must have:
  • Doctorate in Computer Science or related field
  • 3+ years relevant experience
  • Experience with LLMs
  • Strong publication record
  • Collaboration & teamwork skills
  • AI productization experience
Good to have:
  • 5+ years related research experience
  • Experience in top AI conferences
  • Experience with reasoning models and agentic AI

Job Details

Overview

The Data and Artificial Intelligence team in Microsoft’s Developer Division, part of newly formed CoreAI group, is working on the future of AI for Developers! We are a diverse, entrepreneurial and multi-disciplinary group of scientists, researchers and engineers with passion for using AI to improve the productivity of millions of developers around the world. We have released AI for code advancements in Github Copilot, VS Code, Visual Studio and other Microsoft Copilots.

 

We are seeking an Principal Research Scientist to work on groundbreaking research projects, taking these from research into product. You will collaborate with scientists, engineers and designers across Microsoft Research, Microsoft product teams and Github. You will have an opportunity to build and train state-of-the-art models, and opportunities to both apply and advance existing approaches of using LLMs for software engineering, from using RAG to evaluation. Most importantly, you will have an opportunity to work closely with several developer product teams to run experiments, evaluate, iterate and improve your AI projects on a large scale.

 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

 

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications: 

  • Doctorate in Computer Science or relevant field AND 3+ years related experience
    • OR equivalent experience.

 

 

Other Requirements: 

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:  

  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.  

Preferred Qualifications: 

 

  • Doctorate in relevant field AND 5+ years related-research experience
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Experience publishing academic papers as a lead author or essential contributor.
  • Experience participating in a top conference in relevant-research domain.
  • Experience with LLMs in natural language, AI for code or related fields
  • Outstanding teamwork and collaboration skills
  • Experience in productizing AI and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams
  • Experience publishing academic papers as a lead author or essential contributor in field of Artificial Intelligence
  • Experience defining and working on research projects, specifically in reasoning models and agentic AI

Research Sciences IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until April 27, 2025.

 

 

Responsibilities

  • Initiate and advance research to advance state-of-the-art in AI for Software Engineering
  • Collaborate across disciplines with product teams across Microsoft and Github
  • Stay up to date with the research literature and product advances in AI for software engineering
  • Collaborate with world renowned experts in programming tools and developer tools to integrate AI across software development stack for Copilot
  • Build and manage large-scale AI experiments and models.

 

Embody our Culture and Values

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