Principal Research Scientist- Vision and Document Understanding
Redmond, Washington, United States
Full Time Senior-level / Expert USD 133K - 282K
Microsoft
Within AI Platform, the Cognitive Services team empowers developers and data scientists around the world to easily add AI capabilities to their apps. Our team is responsible for the research components that go into our Computer Vision and Document Understanding offerings. #aiplatform
We are looking for a Principal Research Scientist with a background in Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing and/or Artificial Intelligence to join our team. On the Document Understanding area, this includes topics like layout analysis, chart understanding, multi-page multi-document question answering, novel ways of leveraging large language models for document understanding and solving problems inherent to large language models (grounding, retrieval-based generation, etc.). On the Computer Vision area, this includes topics like object detection, activity detection, video anomaly detection, etc. Familiarity with modern large language/multimodal models and is a plus, but not required.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
- Conduct pioneering research to propel the state-of-the-art in various tasks in Document Understanding and Computer Vision.
- Work closely with fellow Research Scientists and Product Engineering teams to translate research outcomes into practical solutions.
- Provide expertise and support to the engineering team on various challenges, fostering collaboration between research and practical application.
- Take charge of the research agenda from problem definition to algorithm and model development.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Doctorate in relevant field AND 3+ years related-research experience
- OR equivalent experience.
- Experience in leading research efforts in Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing and/or Artificial Intelligence targeted at productization.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience publishing academic papers (as a lead author or essential contributor) in the top AI Conferences (e.g., CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NIPS, ICML, ICLR, IJCV, PAMI, etc.).
- Keen interest in real-world applications and impact, and 5+ years of experience in translating research into actual product innovation.
- Demonstrable ability to define an ambitious, original research agenda, and technically lead a multi-disciplinary team.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, and familiarity with machine learning frameworks PyTorch.
Research Sciences IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $173,200 - $282,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 2, 2024.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Tags: Computer Vision EMNLP Engineering ICLR ICML LLMs Machine Learning ML models NLP Python PyTorch Research
Perks/benefits: Career development Conferences Medical leave
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