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As a Senior Researcher on the Azure Data engineering team, you will join the Databases organization to develop models, agents, and indexing infrastructure for semantic retrieval and memories. You will master subareas such as Object Recognition or Text Classification while gaining expertise in broader fields like Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and Statistical Modeling. Your daily work involves advancing a research agenda by creating new algorithms, prototypes, theories, and tools to solve problems impacting business opportunities. You will collaborate with internal and external groups as a domain expert, potentially filing patents or authoring white papers. The role requires proficiency in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. This position focuses on building the data platform for the age of AI, specifically addressing semantic retrieval quality across various modalities.
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