Pretraining Data Researchers and Research Engineers

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)