Applied Researcher 2/ Senior Applied Researcher
About the team
The Code|AI team is the Applied Research and Data for Github Copilot and VS Code, working on the future of AI for Developers. We are a diverse, entrepreneurial, and multi-disciplinary group of scientists, researchers, and engineers with a 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 Copilot extensions in other IDEs. Our team focuses on post-training code specific models like code completion, code embedding models and agentic research for Copilot Coding Agent, Copilot CLI and Copilot Code Review. We embrace the open source and continue to share our research and work with the developer and research community to advance AI in Developer tools.
About the role
We are seeking entrepreneurial and creative Applied Researchers 2/ Senior Applied Researchers - CoreAI to lead 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.
Responsibilities
- Contribute projects on the future of AI for developers.
- 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.
- Create new datasets from both the world's public code and Microsoft's internal data.
- Build and manage large-scale ML experiments and models.
- Embody our Culture and Values
Required qualifications
- Master's Degree in relevant field AND 1+ year(s) related research experience OR Bachelor's Degree in relevant field AND 2+ years related research experience OR equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred qualifications
- 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 5+ years related research experience OR equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of research/industrial experience with LLM
- Industrial/research experience with CodeLLM, Code agent or AI IDE
- Experience participating in a top conference in relevant research domain
- Experience publishing academic papers as a lead author or essential contributor.
Pay
Research Sciences IC3: The typical base pay range across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 per year. For the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, the range is USD $133,800 - $219,200 per year.
Research Sciences IC4: The typical base pay range across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. For the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, the range is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.