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The PROSE team is advancing the state of the art in program synthesis and shipping these innovations through flagship Microsoft products that impact millions of users worldwide . Thes e products i nclud e the world’s most popular spreadsheet software Excel, the industry-leading IDE s Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot, the power platform suite of products including Power B I, PowerApps, PowerAutomate , and other software tool s including Azure Data Studio, Azure Data Monitor, Azure Data Factory, PowerShell , and SQL Server Management Studio . The application domains range from developer productivity, business user low-code/no-code scenarios to even programming education. To power these features PROSE has developed a powerful and flexible framework for program synthesis that leverages techniques from both logical reasoning and machine learning (including LLMs) and combines them in unique ways to synthesize programs automatically. This approach has been recognized with frequent papers at top-tier conferences and awards, including best paper and test-of-time awards.

We invite researchers with machine learning, programming language, or software engineering research to apply for a full-time Senior Researcher position on the PROSE team at Microsoft. The recent success of large language models (LLMs) creates an opportunity to take a qualitative step forward, to extend dramatically the reach of what users can do with Copilots. Our team provides a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research and real-world impact, solving customer problems on a global scale. Researchers design and carry out the research underlying state-of-the-art systems and work together with world-class engineers to implement these systems in production. To learn more about our approach and culture see this award talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=421gU482xFE) on the story behind one of the team’s early innovations: the Flash Fill feature in Excel.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

As a Researcher, you will have the opportunity to:

• Design and carry out innovativeAI research with applications to code and data platforms (e.g., Visual Studio and Excel).

• Work with engineers and PMs to deploy your research to customers.

• Collaborate withacademic partners, mentor interns and longer-term research fellows (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/prose-research-fellowship-program/) .

• Publish in top-tier academic venues and interact with the broader academic community

Qualifications

Required Q ualifications

• Doctorate in Computer Science or relevant field

• OR equivalent experience.

• 2+publications intop-tier machine learning, programming language,software engineering, human-computer interactionsor relevant venues (such as AAAI, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, EMNLP, NAACL, ACL, POPL, PLDI, OOPSLA, ICSE, FSE, CHI, UIST, and comparable).

• 2+ years of prior research experience in machine learning, programming language, software engineering, or human-computer interaction.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with large language models.

• Experience in training transformer-based models, including data collection and curation, for research projects in both industrial and academic settings.

• Demonstrated proficieny in building interactive AI systems.

• Demonstrated interest in applying machine learning to spreadsheet tasks.

• Experience in industrial research internships.

• Demonstrated collaboration and communication skills in multi-disciplinary or cross-functional teams.

• Demonstrated ability to develop an original research agenda, demonstrated by leading publications in a top-tier machine learning, programming language, software engineering, human-computer interactions (HCI)or relevant venue.

Research Sciences IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until February 25, 2025

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .