Member of Technical Staff AI Data Platform Frontier Models

Microsoft

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$142,800–$274,800 / yr
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17 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday
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Feb 21, 2027

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TL;DR · Member of Technical Staff AI Data Platform Frontier Models

Member of Technical Staff - AI Data Platform, Frontier Models joins the frontier AI lab team to develop and evolve large-scale infrastructure for pre-training and post-training workloads. The role involves building intelligent multimodal data processing systems, creating AI-native pipelines using LLMs and agents, and designing optimized storage layers for high-quality data. You will manage data collection, ingestion, cleaning, curation, and governance while developing specialized datasets for complex domains like healthcare and retail inspection. Key responsibilities include driving the data-model-evaluation loop to identify data gaps and implementing synthetic data strategies. Required skills include proficiency in Python, SQL, and Shell, along with experience in Spark, Flink, or Ray. You must have expertise in multimodal data, open file formats like Lance, Iceberg, Paimion, and Parquet, and a deep understanding of LLMs, vision models, and speech systems.

What you'll do

  • Develop and evolve large-scale AI data infrastructure for pre-training and post-training workloads at the exabyte scale.
  • Build automated systems for processing multimodal data including text, images, video, and documents.
  • Design and train models for classification, recognition, captioning, and quality scoring to improve data processing.
  • Create intelligent data pipelines using LLMs and agents to automate collection, filtering, deduplication, and annotation.
  • Architect AI-optimized storage layers using formats like Lance, Iceberg, and Parquet to support multimodal embeddings.
  • Source and create high-value datasets for specialized domains through human annotation and synthetic data generation.
  • Execute a data-model-evaluation loop by analyzing model failures to identify and fill specific data gaps.

What we're looking for

  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field and 3+ years of relevant experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field and 4+ years of relevant experience.
  • Proficiency in Python with experience in SQL and Shell.
  • Experience with distributed data platforms such as Spark, Flink, or Ray.
  • Hands-on experience building datasets for LLM/VLM/multimodal model pre-training or post-training.
  • Experience with synthetic data generation including text, image-text synthesis, and multimodal trajectory generation.
  • Experience with open file and table formats such as Lance, Iceberg, Paimon, and Parquet.
  • Experience building ETL systems, data models, data pipelines, or data warehouses (preferred).

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