Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Microsoft is a company where innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers to levels they cannot achieve anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, and more openness in a cloud-enabled world. It is an incredible time for AI initiatives at Microsoft. We're pushing the boundaries of AI and Machine Learning across multiple domains to advance Microsoft’s ambitious AI goals. Microsoft Copilot Studio is our comprehensive agent building platform that lets its customers create conversational and autonomous agents using natural language or a graphical interface. Copilot Studio makes it simple to design, test, and deploy solutions tailored to its customers’ industry, company, department, or role, whether they need agents for internal or external use cases. We are looking to hire a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our team! This role will contribute to the development and integration of cutting-edge AI technologies into Microsoft Copilot Studio, ensuring they are inclusive, ethical, and impactful. You will also collaborate across product, design, research, and engineering teams to bring innovative solutions to life, applying your expertise in machine learning, data science, and software engineering to solve complex problems. Your work will directly influence product quality and customer experiences. Additionally, this opportunity will combine machine learning and AI knowledge with software engineering expertise, while demonstrating a growth mindset and customer empathy. Join us in shaping the future of AI agents. You will play a crucial role in developing the Copilot Studio Applied Science and Research team’s direction in machine learning, Generative AI model fine-tuning, Agent creation and deployment, AI evaluation and scaling.

• Prepare and analyze data for machine learning, identifying optimal features and addressing data gaps.
• Implement machine learning algorithms, large-scale model fine-tuning, especially with closed and open source LLMs, SLMs, multimodal or task-specific models to solve real-world customer problems and deliver measurable product and customer impact.
• Contribute to or enhance existing innovations by continuously refining well-established models and training techniques through iterative improvements.
• Develop evaluation frameworks to assess model performance, monitor model behavior, conduct systematic benchmarking, and address identified weaknesses while ensuring compliance with customer standards.
• Write efficient production code and debug complex distributed systems.
• Provide subject matter expertise in AI subfields (e.g., deep learning, Generative AI, NLP, muti-modal models, reinforcement learning) to help translate cutting-edge research into practical, real-world solutions that drive product innovation and business impact.
• Demonstrate deep understanding of small and large language models (SLMs and LLMs) architecture and optimization techniques to adapt out-of-the-box solutions to particular business problems.

• 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)
• 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)
• 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.

• Industry leading healthcare
• Educational resources
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is a company where innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers to levels they cannot achieve anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, and more openness in a cloud-enabled world. It is an incredible time for AI initiatives at Microsoft. We're pushing the boundaries of AI and Machine Learning across multiple domains to advance Microsoft’s ambitious AI goals. Microsoft Copilot Studio is our comprehensive agent building platform that lets its customers create conversational and autonomous agents using natural language or a graphical interface. Copilot Studio makes it simple to design, test, and deploy solutions tailored to its customers’ industry, company, department, or role, whether they need agents for internal or external use cases. We are looking to hire a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our team! This role will contribute to the development and integration of cutting-edge AI technologies into Microsoft Copilot Studio, ensuring they are inclusive, ethical, and impactful. You will also collaborate across product, design, research, and engineering teams to bring innovative solutions to life, applying your expertise in machine learning, data science, and software engineering to solve complex problems. Your work will directly influence product quality and customer experiences. Additionally, this opportunity will combine machine learning and AI knowledge with software engineering expertise, while demonstrating a growth mindset and customer empathy. Join us in shaping the future of AI agents. You will play a crucial role in developing the Copilot Studio Applied Science and Research team’s direction in machine learning, Generative AI model fine-tuning, Agent creation and deployment, AI evaluation and scaling.