Multimodal (AI)

Location: Mountain View, United States. Employees living within 50 miles of a designated U.S. Microsoft office are expected to work from that office at least four days a week starting January 26, 2026.

Salary: USD $220,800–$331,200 per year for the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area; the general U.S. range is USD $165,600–$296,400 per year.

Company

A startup-like AI team developing controllable, safety-aligned foundation models designed to amplify human potential and serve large-scale products.

What you will do

• Develop algorithms, model architectures, experiments, datasets, and data pipelines for multimodal foundation models.
• Improve training and deployment efficiency for large-scale AI systems.
• Lead measurement, evaluation, ablation studies, and data-driven scientific analysis.
• Design and improve multimodal dataset curation, annotation, quality evaluation, and bias detection processes.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, data engineering, pre-training, post-training, product, and design teams.
• Advance AI systems responsibly through safety-aligned evaluation and responsible AI practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in AI, Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, plus 6+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
• Direct experience with image generation models.
• Experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and scalable architectures.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and a data-driven approach to decision-making.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree with 8+ years of experience or bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of experience.
• Experience with multimodal or conversational models, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Azure, or cloud/HPC environments.
• Expertise in foundation-model data engineering, privacy, compliance, and Responsible AI.
• Experience with prompt engineering, safety-aligned evaluation, and production conversational AI integration.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment focused on innovation, inclusion, respect, integrity, and accountability.
• Opportunity to work on models that support products reaching billions of users.
• Benefits and other compensation may be available.
• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.