# Member of Technical Staff, Principal Tech Lead Manager, Image Generation

**Company**: Microsoft
**Location**: Redmond
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $139,900 - $274,800 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: MSFT
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2283

**Apply**: https://microsoft.ai/job/member-of-technical-staff-principal-tech-lead-manager-image-generation/
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_0ced2527-01e

## Description

We are hiring a Principal Tech Lead Manager to own and grow Copilot's image generation capabilities. This is a high-impact, high-ownership role at the intersection of frontier model integration, evaluation science, and product quality. The successful candidate will set the technical direction for image generation, lead a team of Applied AI engineers and platform engineers, and drive measurable improvements in image quality, user satisfaction, and first-run success.

Responsibilities:

- Define and own the end-to-end technical roadmap for Copilot image generation , from prompt understanding and model integration to evaluation, quality, and reliability.

- Establish architectural best practices for image generation pipelines, including prompt conditioning, safety filtering, multimodal grounding, and user personalization.

- Partner with research, product, and infrastructure teams to translate long-horizon vision into executable milestones.

- Serve as the primary technical decision-maker for model selection, integration approaches, and evaluation strategy.

- Lead the integration, evaluation, and launch of new image generation models and capabilities into Copilot surfaces.

- Drive improvements to first-run success rate, image quality, prompt adherence, and overall user satisfaction with generated images.

- Build and own the feedback loop from user signals to model and prompt iteration.

- Close the loop from production data to systematic improvements.

- Identify and resolve failure modes in image generation including safety gaps, quality regressions, prompt misinterpretation, and accessibility issues.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

- Preferred Master's degree or PHD or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Applied Math, Statistics, or a related field.

- 5+ years of industry experience in applied ML, AI product engineering, or related disciplines.

- 1+ years managing a team of engineers or data scientists.

- Demonstrated experience shipping production AI or ML systems at scale.

- Prior experience leading or mentoring engineers, including at formal tech lead and senior IC responsibilities.

- Hands-on experience building evaluation frameworks or quality systems for AI/ML products.

- Track record of driving measurable quality or performance improvements through systematic iteration.

- Direct experience with image generation models (diffusion models, GANs, multimodal models, etc.).

- Experience building and owning hillclimbing infrastructure for generative AI.

- Formal people management experience, including hiring and performance management.

- Experience working on consumer AI products with high user visibility and quality bar.

- Prior work in responsible AI for generative media, including safety filtering and content policy enforcement.

## Skills

### Required
- C
- C++
- C#
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
- Computer Science
- Applied Math
- Statistics
- AI
- Machine Learning
- Image Generation
- Diffusion Models
- GANs
- Multimodal Models
- Hillclimbing Infrastructure
- Generative AI
- Responsible AI
- Safety Filtering
- Content Policy Enforcement