# Principal Product Manager, Foundational AI Research

**Company**: Microsoft AI
**Location**: Redmond
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD $139,900 – $274,800 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://microsoft.ai/job/principal-product-manager-foundational-ai-research-2/
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_777fd980-5ee

## Description

## Summary

Microsoft AI are looking for a talented Principal Product Manager, Foundational AI Research at their Redmond 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 Principal Product Manager, Foundational AI Research, you will be advancing the next generation of LLM models working on either (1) pre-training and post-training data and evaluations, (2) training infrastructure, or (3) API and Platform. You will be responsible for working backward from customer needs to prioritize new research, build evals and datasets, and work closely with AI researchers to build and execute project plans.

## Accountabilities

- Identify and prioritize language / coding / multimodal issues and work with researchers to find a path to resolution.

- Create novel data collection tasks for taskers to evaluate models and to collect training data for fine-tuning.

## The Candidate we're looking for

**Experience:**

- 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development.

**Technical skills:**

- Experience building and shipping data pipelines or evaluation systems personally.

**Personal attributes:**

- Proactive attitude and enthusiasm for exploring new methods and familiar with research and technical advancement in the area.

## Benefits

- Product Management IC5 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 – $274,800 per year.

- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

## Skills

### Required
- product management
- software development
- data pipelines
- evaluation systems

### Nice to have
- research
- technical advancement
- proactive attitude