The Prose team is advancing the state of the art in program synthesis and shipping these innovations through flagship Microsoft products that impact millions of users worldwide. These products include the world’s most popular spreadsheet software Excel, the industry-leading Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, the power platform suite of products including Power BI, PowerApps, PowerAutomate, and other software tools including Azure Data Studio, Azure Data Monitor, Azure Data Factory, PowerShell, and SQL Server Management Studio. The application domains range from developer productivity, business user low-code/no-code scenarios to even programming education. To power these features PROSE has developed a powerful and flexible framework for program synthesis that leverages techniques from both logical reasoning and machine learning and combines them in unique ways to synthesize programs automatically. This approach has been recognized with frequent papers at top-tier conferences and awards, including best paper and test-of-time awards.

　　We are looking for a Researcher II with machine learning and high-impact research to join our team. The recent success of large language models (LLMs) creates an opportunity to take a qualitative step forward, to extend dramatically the reach of what users can do with Copilots. Our team provides a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research and real-world impact, solving customer problems on a global scale. Researchers design and carry out the research underlying state-of-the-art systems and work together with world-class engineers to implement these systems in production.

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　　In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

　　Responsibilities

　　Design and carry out innovativemachine learning research with applications to code and data platforms (e.g., Excel).

　　Work with engineers and PMs to deploy your research to customers.

　　Collaborate withacademic partners, mentor interns and longer-term research fellows (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/prose-research-fellowship-program/) .

　　Publish in top-tier academic venues and interact with the broader academic community.

　　Embody our Culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) and Values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)

　　Qualifications

　　Required/Minimum Qualifications

　　Master's Degree in relevant field AND 1+ year(s) related research experience in neural program sythensis, natural language processing, and/or applications of deep learning.

　　OR equivalent experience.

　　1+ years experience training transformer-based models (including collecting and curating training data) as part of research projects in anindustrial or academic setting.

　　1+ years experience developing an original research agenda, demonstrated by leading at least one publication in machine learning or relevant venue.

　　3+ publications in machine learning or relevant venues(e.g. AAAI, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, EMNLP, NAACL, ACL, and comparable).

　　Preferred Qualifications

　　Experience working with large language models, including automated prompt tuning, fine-tuning, instruction-tuning and continued pre-training.

　　Experience with reinforcement learning and its applications to training large language models.

　　Have interests in applying machine learning to structured and semi-structured data such as tabular data.

　　Hold previous industrial research internship positions.

　　Experience collaborating across multi-disciplinary or multi-role teams.

　　Research Sciences IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,300 - $182,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $120,900 - $198,600 per year.

　　Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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