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Principal research engineer

Cambridge
Microsoft
Research engineer
Posted: 11 February
Offer description

Overview

Join the Research Engineering team at MSR Cambridge, working closely with world-class researchers to help build, evaluate and transfer ambitious research ideas into Microsoft products. Our team has broad experience spanning front-end, systems, networking and ML engineering at datacenter scale. We work across all the research areas in MSR Cambridge, either deeply embedded in research projects, or contributing to widely used infrastructure.

We seek a Principal RSDE to join our talented team. By bringing key skills and experience at the intersection of programming languages, compilers, verification, and machine learning you would accelerate delivery of our lab's research into shipping products used by millions of people world-wide.

Responsibilities

Build prototypes to demonstrate research value, in some cases bringing these prototypes all the way to product-level readiness. You like getting things done.
Evaluate research prototypes, and help write up results to communicate them clearly to our partners or via academic publishing.
Collaborate with researchers and product teams, helping smooth technology transfer between them.
Master a broad area of research and its related applications. You'll be recognized as the team's expert in this area.
Create clarity on what needs to happen next by showing technical leadership to those around you, striving for measurable impact.

Qualifications

Required

MSc in Computer science, or related area
Proficient in collaborative software development in Python and lower-level languages.
Deep experience in compiler internals and related programming language analysis techniques (eg separation logic).
Experience with the internals of machine learning models.

Preferred

PhD in Computer Science or related area or comparable industry experience.
Experience with pytorch.
Experience of low-level systems and performance trade-offs.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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