Member Of Technical Staff, Machine Learning (AI)

TL;DR

Member of Technical Staff, Machine Learning (AI): Creating and optimizing LLM models for general-purpose capabilities and products with an accent on developing new training methods, data collection, and evaluation. Focus on building world-class AI experiences, writing production-quality code, and ensuring safety-aligned human values.

Location: Must be based in Zürich, Switzerland, with an expectation to work from the office at least four days a week if living within 25 miles of the location.

Company

The Microsoft Superintelligence team is a startup-like team within hirify.global, focused on advancing AI towards Humanist Superintelligence.

What you will do

• Improve model quality for interactive and agentive experiences using subject matter expertise.
• Oversee data acquisition or generation efforts, ensuring that the data meets model needs.
• Generalize machine learning solutions into repeatable frameworks.
• Lead evaluation efforts of models, including those deployed within Microsoft products and the Cloud API.
• Track advances in industry and academia, identifying relevant state-of-the-art research, and adapting algorithms/techniques.
• Write efficient, readable, extensible code and model pipelines.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Experience prompting, evaluating, and working with large language models.
• Experience writing production-quality Python code.

Nice to have

• Doctorate in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Human-Centered AI or related field with 2+ years experience.
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field with 5+ years experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Machine Learning, Physics, or related field AND 7+ years data-science experience.
• Demonstrated engineering experience or research experience (e.g., creating features, complex graduate work, research papers).
• 4+ years of data science experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a startup-like team pushing the boundaries of AI towards Humanist Superintelligence.
• Opportunity to partner with incredible product teams, giving models the chance to reach billions of users.
• Collaborate with a growth mindset to empower others and realize shared goals.
• Culture of inclusion built on values of respect, integrity, and accountability.
• Focus on empowering every person and organization to achieve more.