Research Scientist

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We are looking for a Research Scientist with a background in Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing and/or Artificial Intelligence, including 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.). Familiarity with modern large language models is a plus, but not required.

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Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include:

• Conduct pioneering research to propel the state-of-the-art in various tasks in document understanding.
• 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
  • OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Doctorate in relevant field AND 2+ years related research experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience publishing academic papers as a lead author or essential contributor.
• Solid algorithmic problem solving and software development skills (Python, C/C++, etc.). 
• Experience with open-source tools such as PyTorch, etc. 
• Publication(s) in top-tier conferences or journals in related fields (e.g., CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NIPS, ICML, ICLR, IJCV, PAMI, etc.). 

Research Sciences IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 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 July 7, 2024.

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