Principal Researcher, Machine Learning & Statistics
Microsoft
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This role pays less than 78% of similar roles. Most pay $182,750–$254,750 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $177k versus about $219k for comparable roles.
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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing
Microsoft currently has 694 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $119,800–$234,700 across 651 roles with salary data.
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The Senior Researcher - Machine Learning & Statistics - Microsoft Research joins the Microsoft Research New England team to conduct cutting-edge theoretical and applied research. This role involves defining and leading an independent research agenda, collaborating across disciplines to shape project directions, and contributing to large-scale research efforts. The researcher will develop new ideas, conduct rigorous research, and publish influential results to inform products and services. Key technical requirements include experience with transformers, large language models, pre-training, and fine-tuning. Candidates must demonstrate skills in creating, optimizing, and running large-scale machine learning pipelines and building data collection and curation pipelines. The work focuses on the science of deep learning, generative AI, post-training, test-time scaling, and new model architectures and training paradigms.
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