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Senior Researcher - Machine Learning - Microsoft Research

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-02-24 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, implement, and evaluate novel methodologies for scientific discovery through artificial intelligence, focusing on post-training, inference-time optimization, interpretability, and experimental design.

Role type

Senior Researcher - Machine Learning (Life Sciences)

Builds

Scientific discovery solutions leveraging generative AI and deep learning models

Domain

Life Sciences + Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

post-training and fine-tuning deep learning models, inference-time optimization, context engineering, prompt optimization, test-time compute optimization, academic paper publication, interdisciplinary collaboration

Preferred skills

experience with generative AI in life sciences, creating robust technical research artifacts

Technologies

deep learning frameworks, generative AI systems

Responsibilities

Develop approaches for inference-time optimization of interaction patterns with deep learning models, participate in robust team-based technical research, innovate software and workflows leveraging generative AI to solve real-world problems in life sciences

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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