Senior Researcher – LLM Systems

3 days ago

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Microsoft Full time ₹ 8,00,000 - ₹ 24,00,000 per year
Generative AI is transforming how people create, collaborate, and communicate - redefining productivity across Microsoft 365 and our customers globally. At Microsoft, we run the biggest platform for collaboration and productivity in the world with hundreds of millions of consumer/enterprise users. Tackling AI efficiency challenges is crucial for delivering these experiences at scale.


Within our Microsoft wide Systems Innovation initiative, we are working to advance efficiency across AI systems, where we look at novel designs and optimizations across AI stacks: models, AI frameworks, cloud infrastructure, and hardware. We are an Applied Research team driving mid- and long-term product innovations. We closely collaborate with multiple research teams and product groups across the globe who bring a multitude of technical expertise in cloud systems, machine learning and software engineering. We communicate our research both internally and externally through academic publications, open-source releases, blog posts, patents, and industry conferences. Further, we also collaborate with academic and industry partners to advance the state of the art and target material product impact that will affect 100s of millions of customers.

We are looking for a Senior Researcher – Systems Researcher to invent, analyze, and productionize the next generation of serving architectures for transformer-based models across cloud and edge. The candidate will focus on algorithmic and systems innovations, including batching, routing, scheduling, caching, deployment safety, and endpoint configuration, that materially improve latency, throughput, cost, and reliability under real-world SLAs for Microsoft Copilots.

The ideal candidate brings a strong background in distributed systems, operating systems, and/or large-scale ML serving, plus the ambition to translate research into impact in production environments. This role blends rigorous research (theory + measurement) with hands-on engineering, and includes publishing papers, filing patents, and collaborating across research and product teams to advance the state of the art.

Have a look at this link for reading: Efficient AI - Microsoft Research

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