Research Software Development Engineer-MSR

Microsoft Research India (MSRIndia)is a leading research lab advancing innovation across the research areas like Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Theory Technology & Empowerment and Systems. Established two decades ago the lab has been at the forefront of computer science research in India and has been home to world class talent and projects.

We are seeking to hire research engineers at Microsoft Research India. We are looking for exceptional candidates with a demonstrated track record in AI/ML including new models scalable ML architectures systems support for such workloads and innovative large-scale applications of ML models. Projects in the lab are inter-disciplinary and span across research areas such as artificial intelligence machine learning natural language processing information retrieval systems theory and related areas.

Interested candidates should apply on the link above.

Weare looking forengineerswithstrong coding and engineering skills. The candidate should be comfortabledealing with open problemsnew technologiesandchanging requirementsand should play different roles in the project as the need arises. The candidate will beworkingcloselywith researchers engineers and internal/external partners and take ownership of meeting project goals through building also provides a great opportunity to receive mentoring as well as to mentor and lead interns and other team members.

Required:

• Bachelors Masters or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science or related disciplines.
• Strong programming and communication skills and ability to drive end-to-end research and developmentfrom ideation to deployment.
• Minimum 5 years of industry work experience with proven track record of innovation and delivering impactful solutions.

Preferred:

• Good understanding of deep learning LLMs and large-scale MLsystems.
• Proficiency in Python PyTorch and familiarity with CUDA cutting-edge agentic frameworks etc.
• Experience in data preparation pre-training post-training and evaluation for ML models.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry citizenship color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information immigration status marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran or military status race ethnicity religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.

Required Experience:

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