Description
Summary
Microsoft AI are looking for a talented Member of Technical Staff - Data Scientist at their Ronkonkoma 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
Microsoft AI is building the next generation of frontier models that power Copilot and other large-scale AI experiences. The Post-Training team is responsible for transforming powerful pretrained models into robust, aligned, and high-performing systems used by millions of people worldwide. Our work focuses on improving general quality, instruction following, coding and math ability, tool use, agentic behaviors, personality, and other critical model capabilities. We operate across the full post-training lifecycle — from data generation and curation, to evaluation and diagnostics, to reward modeling and reinforcement learning.
Accountabilities
- Design evaluations of advanced model capabilities and use them to drive rapid, high-signal iteration loops
- Work with vendors to produce high quality evaluation and training data
The Candidate we're looking for
Experience:
- 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
Technical skills:
- Deep experience with LLMs, either training them or applying them in production
- Developed production-scale data pipelines for synthesizing, curating, or processing large quantities of data
Personal attributes:
- Clear written and verbal communication, and the ability to collaborate effectively with researchers, engineers and other disciplines
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Opportunities for professional growth and development