Machine Learning Engineer

The AI Platform organization at Microsoft builds the end-to-end Azure AI stack/PaaS and is core to Azure’s innovation and differentiation, as well as all of Microsoft’s flagship products, from Office to Teams, to Xbox. We are the team building Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, Cognitive Services, and the global Azure AI infrastructure for running the largest AI workloads on the planet. 

Within AI Platform, our team in Evaluation AI is working on cutting-edge NLP and Deep Learning models and building the next generation model evaluation platform.

We are looking for a passionate, creative, analytical software engineer who loves NLP, deep learning and wants to ship products quickly at a massive scale. We will provide a lot of opportunities for you to learn, grow and contribute. 

Required Qualifications:

• Extinsive experience in coding and proficient in python  
• Extinsive experience in machine learning, natural language processing,  deep learning, or reinforcement learning. 
• Extinsive experience in deep learning library, such as Pytorch or tensorflow.  

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD degree is a plus but not a must, with big passion in deep learning models, and willing to collaborate with AI experts and engineers in the team.
• Strong publications in top conference is a big plus
• Strong ML, statistics, and data science experience are a plus 
• Passion and experience to build large-scale AI models as general AI services to empower many organizations and people.  

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will:

• Work on architecture, design and development of the next generation of Azure AI’s evaluation platform.
• Work with other researchers, applied scientists, and machine learning engineers in the team to design and build the end-to-end pipelines covering model training, data analysis, model serving and model evaluation.
• Implement latest evaluation methods from published literature and methods in the industry.
• Drive new product features and evaluation metrics