About the job
The Code|AI team is the Applied Research and Data for Github Copilot and VS Code, working on the future of AI for Developers! We are a diverse, entrepreneurial, and multi-disciplinary group of scientists, researchers, and engineers with a passion for using AI to improve the productivity of millions of developers around the world. We have released AI for code advancements in Github Copilot, VS Code, Visual Studio and Copilot extensions in other IDEs. Our team focuses on post-training code specific models like code completion, code embedding models and agentic research for Copilot Coding Agent, Copilot CLI and Copilot Code Review. We embrace the open source and continue to share our research and work with the developer and research community to advance AI in Developer tools.
Responsibilities
Contribute projects on the future of AI for developers.
Collaborate across disciplines with product teams across Microsoft and Github.
Stay up to date with the research literature and product advances in AI for software engineering.
Create new datasets from both the world's public code and Microsoft's internal data.
Build and manage large-scale ML experiments and models.
Embody our Culture and Values
Qualifications
Minimum
Master's Degree in relevant field AND 1+ year(s) related research experience OR Bachelor's Degree in relevant field AND 2+ years related research experience OR equivalent experience.
The ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements is 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
Doctorate in relevant field OR Master's Degree in relevant field AND 3+ years related research experience OR Bachelor's Degree in relevant field AND 5+ years related research experience OR equivalent experience.
3+ years of research/industrial experience with LLM
Industrial/research experience with CodeLLM, Code agent or AI IDE
Experience participating in a top conference in relevant research domain
Experience publishing academic papers as a lead author or essential contributor