# Member of Technical Staff - AI Pretraining - MAI Superintelligence Team

**Company**: Microsoft AI
**Location**: Zürich
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://microsoft.ai/job/member-of-technical-staff-ai-pretraining-mai-superintelligence-team-4/
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_41c4fc0c-b2c

## Description

## Summary

Microsoft AI are looking for a talented Member of Technical Staff - AI Pretraining - MAI Superintelligence Team at their Zürich office. This role sits at the heart of strategic decision-making, turning market data into actionable insights for a company that's revolutionising AI technology. You'll work directly with leadership to shape the company's direction in the AI market.

## About the Role

As a Member of Technical Staff - AI Pretraining - MAI Superintelligence Team, you will develop algorithms, model architectures, data mixtures, and scaling laws for large-scale training using a rigorous data-driven approach grounded in meticulous ablations. You will drive algorithmic implementations, conduct experiments, and oversee flagship training runs on our in-house large-scale distributed stack. You will collaborate closely with teams on infrastructure, data, post-training, and multimodality.

## Accountabilities

- Develop algorithms, model architectures, data mixtures, and scaling laws for large-scale training using a rigorous data-driven approach grounded in meticulous ablations

- Drive algorithmic implementations, conduct experiments, and oversee flagship training runs on our in-house large-scale distributed stack

## The Candidate we're looking for

**Experience:**

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

**Technical skills:**

- Proven expertise in the area of pretraining

**Personal attributes:**

- Passionate about conversational AI and its deployment

## Benefits

- Starting January 26, 2026, MAI employees are expected to work from a designated Microsoft office at least four days a week if they live within 50 miles (U.S.) or 25 miles (non-U.S., country-specific) of that location

- Health and wellbeing benefits

- Professional development opportunities

- Financial benefits (bonus, equity, pension, etc.)

## Skills

### Required
- C
- C++
- C#
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python

### Nice to have
- pretraining