About the job
Join us in building a cutting-edge platform that enables business users to oversee and interact with autonomous agents. Our mission is to empower organizations by building and hosting world class agents at scale, providing agent tools for human-in-the-loop (HITL) workflows, and ushering the next wave of Copilot and application interaction. You’ll be part of a team that thrives on innovation and collaboration to redefine how humans and AI work together. Help us build and enable the frontier firm of the future!
Responsibilities
You will gain expertise in one or more subareas and gain experience in a broad area of research, including applicable research techniques. You’ll also gain deep knowledge of a service, platform, or domain, and identify product needs by sharing the latest industry trends and applied technologies. You will review business requirements and incorporate research to meet business goals. You‘ll provide strategic direction for the kinds of data used to solve problems and apply deep subject matter knowledge to support business impact. You will participate in onboarding of other team members and assist in developing academics to be members of multidiscipline teams. You’ll identify new research talent to join Microsoft and collaborate with the academic community to develop the recruiting pipeline. You will document work in progress and experimentation results and share findings to promote innovation. You’ll use your deep understanding of fairness and bias to contribute to ethics and privacy policies related to research processes and data collection. Embody our Culture and Values
Qualifications
Minimum
Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience (e.g., statistics predictive analytics, research) OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR equivalent experience. - 4+ year(s) experience developing and deploying live production systems, as part of a product team. 4+ year(s) experience developing and deploying products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping. 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.
Preferred
Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR equivalent experience. 3+ years experience creating publications (e.g., patents, libraries, peer-reviewed academic papers). Experience presenting at conferences or other events in the outside research/industry community as an invited speaker. 3+ years experience conducting research as part of a research program (in academic or industry settings).