Model Design Staff - Language Engineer

• Craft and refine the context and prompts used to steer, train and evaluate the language models that power Microsoft Copilot for emotional and intellectual use cases.
• Create evaluations and establish evaluation frameworks to measure both technical/practical performance and non-deterministic performance like EQ
• Research & implement novel prompting techniques
• Spin the data flywheel to extract insights from extensive language datasets to uncover issues and opportunities to improve model response quality.
• Accountable to own the status of key projects, proactively identifying risks and proposing solutions to ensure timely delivery. 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Philosophy, Linguistics, Psychology, Literature, or related discipline AND 1+ years experience in context engineering with foundational software engineering knowledge.
• 3+ years experience working in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple priorities, and adapting to changing requirements and deadlines.
• Hands-on experience with prompt design, context window management, and model evaluation.

• 2+ years of experience shipping consumer-facing products. You’ve brought products to market, collected user feedback, defined success metrics and iteratively improved products.
• 1+ years of experience in building LLM applications with familiarity in agent and orchestration frameworks, tool use, LLM evaluations and driving efficiency improvements.
• Technical depth in software development, data science and machine learning. While you are not expected to write code on the critical path, you’re able to navigate and contribute to code repositories to implement context engineering improvements and write LLM scorers and classifiers to evaluate model response quality. 

Applied Sciences IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $131,400 - $215,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Applied Sciences IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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