Machine Learning Engineer

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

The AI Platform organization at Microsoft builds the end-to-end Azure AI stack/PaaS and is core to Azure’s innovation and differentiation, as well as all of Microsoft’s flagship products, from Office to Teams, to Xbox. We are the team building Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, Cognitive Services, and the global Azure AI infrastructure for running the largest AI workloads on the planet. 

Within AI Platform, our team in Evaluation AI is working on cutting-edge NLP and Deep Learning models and building the next generation model evaluation platform.

We are looking for a passionate, creative, analytical Machine Learning Engineer who loves NLP, deep learning and wants to ship products quickly at a massive scale. We will provide a lot of opportunities for you to learn, grow and contribute. 

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

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..

Responsibilities

As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will:

• Work on architecture, design and development of the next generation of Azure AI’s evaluation platform.
• Work with other researchers, applied scientists, and machine learning engineers in the team to design and build the end-to-end pipelines covering model training, data analysis, model serving and model evaluation.
• Implement latest evaluation methods from published literature and methods in the industry.
• Drive new product features and evaluation metrics
• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in applying, implementing, and/or developing algorithms for machine learning, artificial intelligence, or statistics

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/Additional Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

o OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

o OR equivalent experience.

• Experience with large language models (LLM) architectures, inference, fine-tuning and evaluation.
• Deep understanding of deep learning model architectures.
• Experience with building, debugging and optimizing large, high performance ML training jobs.
• Doctorate in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics  or equivalent technical field a definite plus. 

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