Principal Product Manager, Foundational AI Research (AI)

TL;DR

Principal Product Manager, Foundational AI Research (AI): Advancing the next generation of LLM models, working on pre-training and post-training data, training infrastructure, or API and Platform. Focus on prioritizing new research, building evaluations and datasets, and working closely with AI researchers to build and execute project plans.

Location: San Francisco, United States. Employees are expected to work from a designated Microsoft office at least four days a week if they live within 50 miles (U.S.) of that location.

Salary: USD $139,900 – $304,200 per year.

Company

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

What you will do

• Identify and prioritize language / coding / multimodal issues and work with researchers to find a path to resolution.
• Create novel data collection tasks for taskers to evaluate models and to collect training data for fine-tuning.
• Create model prototypes to prove out new feature directions and scope projects.
• Collaborate closely with teams on infrastructure, data engineering, pre-training, post-training, and product feedback.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and growth.
• Advance the AI frontier responsibly.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years direct, hands-on collaboration with model researchers and ML engineers in areas such as training runs, data evaluation, infrastructure, coding, or safety.
• Experience building and shipping data pipelines or evaluation systems personally.

Nice to have

• A technical postgraduate degree is strongly preferred; a PhD is ideal but not mandatory.
• Demonstrated ability to bring enterprise or developer products to market by deeply engaging with end customers.

Culture & Benefits

• Employees come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize shared goals.
• Values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.