• Senior Research Scientist - CoreAI

    Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA)


    Within Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform, the Multimodal Intelligence team empowers developers and data scientists around the world and of all skill levels to easily add AI capabilities for handling documents, video, images and other files to their apps. We are looking for a Senior Research Scientist-CoreAI to join our team.

     

    We are particularly interested in a Senior Research Scientist with a background in Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing and/or Artificial Intelligence, including topics like document layout analysis, chart understanding, multi-page multi-document question answering, novel ways of leveraging large language models for document understanding and solving problems inherent to large language models (grounding, retrieval-based generation, etc.). Familiarity with modern large language models is a plus, but not required.

     

    Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

    Responsibilities

    + Conduct pioneering research to propel the state-of-the-art in various tasks in document understanding.

    + Work closely with fellow research scientists and product engineering teams to translate research outcomes into practical solutions.

    + Provide support to the engineering team on various challenges, fostering collaboration between research and practical application.

    + Take charge of the research agenda from problem definition to algorithm and model development.

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

    Qualifications

    Required Qualifications:

    + Doctorate in Computer Science or relevant field

    + OR equivalent experience.

    + At least 1 published academic papers as a lead author or essential contributor.

    Other Requirements:

    Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

     

    + Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

    Additional/Preferred Qualifications:

    + Doctorate in relevant field AND 2+ years related-research experience

    + OR equivalent experience.

    + Algorithmic problem solving and software development skills (Python, C/C++, etc.).

    + Experience with open-source tools such as PyTorch, etc.

    + Publication(s) in top-tier conferences or journals in related fields (e.g., CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NIPS, ICML, ICLR, IJCV, PAMI, ICDAR, etc.).

     

    Research Sciences IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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

     

    Microsoft posts positions for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

     

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