Sr Principal Researcher - Generative AI / Sr Principal Researcheress - Generative AI

Job Opportunity: Principal Researcher – Generative AI

Microsoft Research (MSR) AI Frontiers lab is looking for a highly qualified Principal Researcher specializing in Generative AI to join our esteemed team in Zurich, Switzerland.

About Us

The mission of the AI Frontiers lab is to push the boundaries of Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities, efficiency, and safety through groundbreaking innovations in foundation models and learning agent platforms. Our projects include significant work on Small Language Models (e.g. Phi, Orca) and agentic AI systems (e.g. AutoGen, MagenticOne, OmniParser).

Role Overview

As a Sr. Principal Researcher in Generative AI, you will lead pivotal advancements in Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). Your contributions will greatly influence the development of cutting-edge technologies, moving state-of-the-art boundaries and providing tangible solutions to real-world challenges.

Research Areas

Our ongoing research encompasses, but is not limited to:

• Reasoning and inference-time compute strategies
• Action models for automating web and computer tasks
• Evaluation and understanding of model and agent capabilities

Our Environment

MSR offers a vibrant and dynamic environment for cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research. You will have access to diverse real-world problems and data, opportunities for experimentation with real-world impact, an open publication policy, and strong collaborations with top academic institutions worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Conduct cutting-edge research in collaboration with fellow researchers, engineers, and product teams.
• Be part of a world-class research organization, contributing to breakthroughs in the field and bringing your innovative ideas to life in products and services used globally.

Qualifications

• Doctorate in Computer Science or a related field and several years of relevant research experience, or equivalent expertise.
• Demonstrated research program through public artifacts such as models, tools, or code in the AI domain, and publications at renowned conferences like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, NAACL, CVPR, COLT, ECCV, ICCV, EMNLP.
• Experience with building and evaluating frontier models.
• Publication experience as a lead author or significant contributor in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
• Participation in leading conferences in your area of research.
• Proven ability to define an ambitious and original research agenda.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to effectively communicate and technically lead a multidisciplinary team.
• A keen interest in real-world applications and their impact.

Apply online using the form below. Please note that only applications matching the job profile will be considered.