Research Fellowship (Start ASAP)

Your role

The PROSE team is advancing the state of the art in program synthesis and shipping these innovations through flagship Microsoft products like Excel, Visual Studio, PowerShell, and SQL Server Management Studio. PROSE has developed a powerful and flexible framework for program synthesis that leverages techniques from both logical reasoning and machine learning and combines them in unique ways to synthesize programs automatically. This approach has been recognized with regular papers at top-tier conferences; a few of them won best paper and test-of-time awards.

Responsibilities

They are hiring Research Fellows for one-year appointments, extensible for another year.

The team provides a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research and real-world impact, solving customer problems on a global scale.

Fellows will actively contribute to state-of-the-art systems and research, collaborate with, and be mentored by expert engineers and researchers from a variety of backgrounds.

They will write code that ships in production to millions of users and write research papers that advance the field of program synthesis.

About you

Required qualifications

• Either a current student finishing up an undergraduate or master’s degree in the next month or a recent graduate in 2022.
• Strong programming skills

Preferred qualifications

• Excellent communication skills
• A keen interest in both research and engineering    
• Background in programming languages/compilers or machine learning/AI

Benefits

As part of Microsoft, you will receive benefits such as:

• Industry-leading healthcare
• Discounts on products and services
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Giving programs
• Educational resources
• Savings and investments
• Generous time away
• Opportunities to network and connect

Training & development

Microsoft fosters a growth mindset culture, believing in the potential for continuous development and learning. You will be supported through mentorship from expert engineers and researchers, and have access to hundreds of technical, management, and professional development classes, both online and in-person. They encourage curiosity, risk-taking, and learning from mistakes as essential to growth and mastery.

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Career progression

The Research Fellow position has the potential to develop into a full-time research track appointment. Microsoft's transformative experience paves the way for a seamless transition into their diverse and impactful workforce, shaping the leaders of tomorrow.

Sources

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• careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/home.html
• careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/life-at-microsoft/culture.html
• careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/life-at-microsoft/benefits.html
• youtube.com