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Senior Principal Researcher - Microsoft Research AI Frontiers

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-01 → 2026-09-27

Core

Lead cutting-edge research in agentic AI, developing novel training algorithms, evaluation frameworks, and prototypes for reasoning and multi-agent tasks to ship practical solutions to millions of users.

Role type

Senior Principal Researcher (Agentic AI)

Builds

Novel training algorithms, evaluation frameworks, prototypes for computer use, action models, memory, and multi-agent orchestration.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Agentic AI / Reasoning Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Designing novel training algorithms, building rigorous evaluation frameworks, prototyping agentic capabilities, defining ambitious research agendas, leading multi-disciplinary teams, publishing academic papers as lead author, participating in top-tier conferences.

Preferred skills

Experience with frontier models, translating research insights into practical solutions.

Technologies

Agentic AI frameworks, reasoning task tools, multi-agent orchestration systems.

Responsibilities

Curate high-quality datasets for agentic tasks, design evaluation frameworks for long-horizon tasks, prototype new agentic capabilities, drive research from idea to publication.

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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