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Applied Researcher 2/ Senior Applied Researcher will join the Code|AI team to advance AI for developers by focusing on post-training code specific models. This role involves leading research projects from inception into product while collaborating with scientists, engineers, and designers across Microsoft Research and GitHub. The successful candidate will build and train state-of-the-art models, manage large-scale machine learning experiments, and create new datasets from public and internal data. Key responsibilities include staying current on AI for software engineering literature and applying techniques like RAG and evaluation to improve developer tools. The role requires expertise in LLMs, CodeLLM, code agents, or AI IDEs. The work centers on solving technical challenges in code completion, embedding models, and agentic research for products like GitHub Copilot, VS Code, and various Copilot extensions across multiple integrated development environments.