At Microsoft, we run the biggest platform for collaboration and productivity in the world with hundreds of millions of consumer/enterprise users. Solving AI, Systems and Privacy challenges is crucial for delivering the best-in-class productivity experiences. 

We are an Applied Research team driving medium and long-term product innovations. We closely collaborate with multiple research teams and product groups across the globe who bring a multitude of technical expertise in cloud systems, machine learning, privacy and software engineering. We communicate our research both internally and externally through academic publications, open-source releases, blog posts, patents, and industry conferences. Further, we also collaborate with academic and industry partners to advance the state of the art and aim for material product impact that will affect 100s of millions of customers.   

We are looking for a Principal Researcher with an inter-disciplinary background in AI, Distributed Systems and Privacy research including efficient training and inference of Large Language Models (LLMs), reliability of web scale cloud workloads and privacy mitigations in machine learning. You will be one of the key architects behind the vision and strategy of our research team with 40+ world class researchers. You will help drive cross-organizational execution to deliver company and academic impact.