Microsoft Research (MSR) AI Frontiers lab is seeking applications for the position of Senior Principal Researcher – Generative AI to join their team in Redmond, WA or New York City, NY. 

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

We are seeking a Senior Principal Researcher – Generative AI to join our team and lead efforts on the advancement of Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) technologies. As a Senior Principal Researcher – Generative AI, you will play a crucial role in leading, developing, improving, and exploring the capabilities of Generative AI models. Your work will have a significant impact on the development of cutting-edge technologies, advancing state-of-the-art and providing practical solutions to real-world problems.   

Our ongoing research areas encompass but are not limited to: 

• Reasoning and inference-time compute strategies 
• Action models for automating web and computer tasks 
• Learning and memory for agentic AI systems to enable them to evolve and adapt over time  
• Orchestration and multi-agent systems: automated orchestration between multiple agents incorporating human feedback and oversight 
• Evaluation and Understanding of model and agent capabilities 

MSR offers a vibrant environment for cutting-edge, multidisciplinary, research, including access to diverse, real-world problems and data, opportunities for experimentation and real-world impact, an open publication policy, and close links to top academic institutions around the world.  
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