# Pretraining Data Researchers and Research Engineers

**Company**: Microsoft AI
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £74,700.00 - £122,600.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Microsoft AI is seeking Researchers and Research Engineers to join the Pre-training Data team. You will work at the intersection of data and innovation, collaborating with scientists, engineers, and annotators to curate, analyze, and evaluate diverse and large-scale data sources critical to model development.

Responsibilities:

- Create high-quality datasets for training and evaluation; run experiments on new datasets to assess their impact and determine the most effective data.

- Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines for ingestion, processing, filtering, and annotation.

- Analyze real-world datasets to assess quality, diversity, relevance, and identify areas for improvement.

- Build lightweight tools and workflows for dataset auditing, visualization, and versioning.

- Collaborate with Safety, Ethics, and Governance teams to ensure datasets meet standards for quality, privacy, and responsible AI practices.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's Degree in AI, Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including Python and common data libraries.

- Experience in data analysis or data engineering, including work with large-scale datasets.

- Proficiency in statistics and exploratory data analysis methods.

- Familiarity with data processing frameworks such as Spark, Ray, or Apache Beam.

Salary Range: £74,700.00 - £122,600.00 per year (Software Engineering IC4), £93,500.00 - £161,800.00 per year (Software Engineering IC5)

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- data libraries
- data analysis
- data engineering
- statistics
- exploratory data analysis

### Nice to have
- large-scale datasets
- data processing frameworks
- Spark
- Ray
- Apache Beam

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