# Member of Technical Staff - Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

**Company**: Microsoft AI
**Location**: Mountain View
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD $139,900 – $274,800 per year or USD $163,000 – $296,400 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Summary

Microsoft AI are looking for a talented Member of Technical Staff to help build Copilot memory and personalization — AI that remembers, evolves, and grows with each user.

## About the Role

As a Member of Technical Staff, you will design and build large-scale Copilot memory and personalization systems leveraging search, embeddings, retrieval, ranking, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). You will apply subject-matter expertise in cross-product features, collaborating with appropriate stakeholders to drive project plans, release plans, and deliverables across multiple groups. You will hold accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.

## Accountabilities

- Design and build large-scale Copilot memory and personalization systems leveraging search, embeddings, retrieval, ranking, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).

- Apply subject-matter expertise in cross-product features, collaborating with appropriate stakeholders to drive project plans, release plans, and deliverables across multiple groups.

## The Candidate we're looking for

**Experience:**

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

**Technical skills:**

- Experience building APIs and creating pipelines for large-scale products.

- Experience building and deploying machine learning or large language model (LLM) applications at scale.

**Personal attributes:**

- Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and are comfortable making progress in ambiguity.

## Benefits

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

- Software Engineering IC6 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $163,000 – $296,400 per year.

## Skills

### Required
- C
- C++
- C#
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
- APIs
- machine learning
- large language model

### Nice to have
- experience building and deploying machine learning or large language model (LLM) applications at scale
- thriving in a fast-paced, collaborative environment

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